Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then again, as a representative form of amusement in which the Romans took great delight, and which was associated with their great religious festivals, the play is worth attention. A play was originally a rite, a fact which accounts for the extremely conventional character and frequent unreality of the earliest Greek drama. Our modern dramatic realism is a thing of very late development and, though a Roman play was in one sense far from being religious, it retained many traces of its ancient origin. The religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement...
With the change of holidays which the State has made, a corresponding change in the spring recess here is worth considering. The recess has always been so dated as to include Fast Day; if it should be changed so as to include Patriots' Day, it would fall about two weeks later, and this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been...
...same company which recently produced the play in New York. The price of subscription tickets will be $3.00 and unless two hundred are sold, the performance can not be undertaken. Harvard men are invited to send subscriptions to Mr. Goodfriend at the Tremont Theatre. The play will be well worth seeing...
...study, but much rather in expatiation over many fields. And we should never forget that fine saying of Lessing's: "Not the truth which one has arrived at, or thinks he has arrived at, but the honest zeal with which he has endeavored to follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes us easy, indolent, and proud. If God held all truth shut in his right hand...
...points in the Yale games and only 10 1-2 points at the Intercollegiates. Storrs, Coolidge, Stickney, Hollister and Phillips are all new men to the team and considerable is expected of them. More men will go to the training-table as soon as they prove their worth...