Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strictest following of that suggestion, however, can hardly justify one old custom-the Memorial Hall custom of stamping whenever some thoughtless visitor in the gallery keeps on his hat. There is not dignity or point enough in the practice to make it worth the name of a Harvard custom. Few visitors know what the stamping means when it begins and only a part of them find out before it ends. The rest go away with strange ideas of Harvard manners. All in the gallery must feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to see several hundred men gaping and stamping at them...
...sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt with the present sharp intercollegiate rivalry and the strong desire to win, many would dislike...
...such reasons, in the opinion of those who are most directly interested in the exercises, the Seniors, have not been shown. Without the "scrimmage," or some suitable substitute which has not been suggested, the Tree exercises as a whole would be entirely without point and not worth continuing. The first objection, that "dirty and offensive" football clothes are worn in the presence of ladies, will have more force when it is shown that the very same clothes are offensive when worn in the presence of ladies at public games of the football team. In neither case are the wearers...
Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary report on the Wamsutta Group of the Narragansett Basin. Messrs. H. F. Kendall and G. Buckman.- The Dikes of the Richmond Basin. Mr. J. B. Wood-worth. Geological Laboratory, Room...
These lectures should therefore be well worth attending. The one unfortunate but unavoidable accompaniment of having so many lectures crowded into a single week is that many men who would like to hear all or several of them can not find the time to attend more than one or two. It is realized, however, that few can attend more than a part of the many addresses and lectures given during the year, and they are therefore arranged to cover a wide range of subjects, so that in choosing from the large number given students may always find some that will...