Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play is well worth going to see, being a decided improvement over last year's performance. The plot is good, but it is worked out in the conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...biennial games which take place today at 2.30 should be unusually interesting, judging from the number of prominent athletes who have entered. In the high hurdles there should be a race well worth seeing with such men entered as Chase the American champion, and Curtis who won this event at the Olympic games. The low hurdle race should also prove exciting with such performers as Bremer, Chase, and Perkins, the Yale crack. This race has been changed from the usual 220 yards to 146 2-3, and the 220 yards flat to one of 150, so that it will...
...root of Buddhism, said Professor Lanman, is popular pessimism. The early Hindoos however, were not pessimists. It is only the later Hindoos who believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...
...Mile Walk.W. B. Fotterman, Jr., '98, A. G. B. Davis '97, W. T. Worth '97, H. T. Thompson '99, H. E. Clyde...
...great deal of interest is centering in the Garrick Club's presentation of Farquhar's "Inconstant," which will be given next Wednesday. The Garrick Club is a dramatic organization working upon somewhat different lines than the Mask and Wig, and whose purpose is to present plays of recognized literary worth and to foster among the undergraduates an interest in real dramatic art. The club has been eminently successful in its work and has presented several old English comedies of the 17th century...