Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...series of lectures, so distinguished a man as Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske's reputation as an essayist in both historical and philosophical fields is a guarantee that whatever he has to say on so interesting a subject a subject as "The Mystery of Evil" will be decidedly worth hearing...
Against such a weak team the stability of '98's interference and the worth of their offensive work cannot be rightly estimated...
...Calendar of Mr. Copeland's lecture needs no commentary. But to the new-comers we wish to speak a word concerning these meetings. Aside from the pleasure to be derived from hearing interesting prose and verse read well, the subject of this first talk is really one quite worth attention. If a man makes no effort to acquire the ability to read and to speak well before he leaves college, the chances are that he never will. The fact that Mr. Copeland and Mr. Hayes are prepared to furnish voluntary instruction to those who desire it, adds to the desirability...
...unfortunate that the average Harvard underclassman does not take a livelier interest in such of the college publications as represent the more serious efforts to produce something of true literary worth...
things, like those machines of perpetual motion, admirable in every way but one-that they will not go. I believe that I understand and value form as much as I should, but I also believe that some of those who have insisted most strongly on its supreme worth as the shaping soul of a work of art have imprisoned the word "soul" in a single one of its many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious...