Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...Whitman teaches the dignity of the body, so he teaches the worth of labor. He is the first true democratic poet...
...writer of this article seems to think that there are no high honors in the University open to the rich student. He appears to think that no prize that does not actually bear the name of scholarship is worth the scholar's winning. This is a mere confusion of terms. There are high honors in every department of the University that the rich scholar may win, and every one understands that the prizes are the reward for excellent scholarship, call them by what names you will...
...within the last few years. He notes that this class of students now do as honest work as the members of any College class, and need no longer be looked on with suspicion. "The body of special students," The Dean says, "may already point out among its members men worth all the labor expended on them...
True conservatism, however, in just proportion, makes memory possible; preserves faithfulness, and with reverend hand upholds to us noble examples of the heroes and the saints who are gone. It stores up for succeeding generations the knowledge and the moral worth of the past. Thus also wise radicalism is a power for good because it is truly progressive, creative, affirmative...