Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expectation of the Yale Andover Club to award annual prizes of considerable worth to the two men from Phillips Andover Academy who pass the best entrance examination for the academic and scientific departments respectively. This plan cannot fail to be of great benefit both to this preparatory school and to the University. The club will give up its annual banquet, believing that little actual benefit is afforded through it, and will hold, later in the year, a joint Andover-Exeter reunion, thus keeping alive among the students an interest in their preparatory school. This new precedent inaugurated by the Andover...
...completed. At that time it stood fifth in point of circulation among the libraries of the United States, while the building has been ranked among the two or three best equipped in the country. In 1887 Mr. Putnam went abroad, visiting England and Scotland, and bought $30,000 worth of books for the library, adding to this some $10,000 or $20,000 worth for the next couple of years...
Since, however, the interest of persons like "Senior" has not yet proved itself of any worth by the formation of scrub teams, so beneficial to the development of a sport in its early stages, the Oxfords, in so far as they are Harvard men, must by virtue of the college of their origin still bear the burden of representing Harvard in ice polo...
...disciples' feet because it was a courtesy which no one else would stoop to offer. Finally, Christ gave His life for us, for He did not feel that though He was perfect He was too good to sacrifice Himself for us. Perfect humility is a beautiful thing and well worth having...
...this mode of treatment which calls out the best actions from students. It is a pleasure to know that men in the Faculty are sincerely sympathetic; it is a great pleasure to know that they believe in the worth of student judgement and their powers of control...