Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletics are worth doing at all, they are worth doing well. To be done well, they must be supported,- supported, so long as honorably and wisely conducted, by the whole University and supported whether prospects are bright or dark...
...varsity management have, we are glad to see, made the usual provision for a scrub baseball championship. Quite independent of any possible good done to 'varsity teams of later years, these games are worth the while simply for the recreation given to no small number of students...
...reason and in all things we must use this as a test whether or not we can believe in them. We cannot accept what is contrary to our reason. God does not expect us to believe that which contradicts our very guiding power. So a blind faith is worth nothing; we must believe reasonably and intelligently. The doctrine of the Trinity, if it is contrary to our reason, we cannot accept; it is only when it is put reasonably to us that we believe in it. We cannot conceive of three separate persons making one person, but we can conceive...
...plan of the Wendell Phillips Club to have addresses given under its auspices by prominent public men has valuable possibilities, and the selection of speaker and subject for tonight's address augurs well for their realization. The address ought to be of worth both because the subject is one on which much public attention is rapidly focusing, and because Governor Greenhalge is in a position clearly to understand the question...
...them to have any poetry? In order to have that, we must allow time for the invention of music, then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the poets avail themselves? There would be love and war, or, if no deeds worth celebrating offered themselves (unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment on the assertion we sometimes hear that if we have no poetry...