Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Will to Believe. Is Life Worth Living...
...Will to Believe. Is Life Worth Living...
...forms of intellectual effort public speaking is the most fascinating. And it is the most transitory of all influences. But I urge you to give your thought to oratory. Above all I urge you to use your influence in a cause which shall make it worth using...
...change in sentiment does not seem hard to explain. Declamation, except perhaps by a professional who has spent many years in training, is unreal and uninteresting. Declamations worth listening to can hardly be expected from a student who has few opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because...
Prizes are valuable, not because they distribute money among the students; to be of real value they must offer an incentive to work that is worth doing and that will be done even if the prizes are not offered. The Boylston Prizes as they stand, are a gratuity; if they are transferred to debating they will serve to build up one of the most important branches of college work...