Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read by every...
Only eight men are to be taken to the freshman crew training table for the present. Two others however, will be taken as soon as they show their worth. These men have been chosen: M. S. Duffield, H. C. de V. Cornwell, S. Hollister, P. Houghton, F. T. Lord, W. H. Phelps, S. W. Sleeper, A. A. Sprague...
...identities not his own. He has to study from living models; for his craft is to present appearances other than his own, and to do things which all men may recognize as not impossible typically. In this study we can not help arriving at some high opinion of the worth and value of identity. The voice, face, manner, bearing, and accent of others are all easy of imitation; but it is when the higher qualities belonging to an individuality have to be reproduced that the imitator's difficulty begins and his weakness is exposed. With the true artist the internal...
There is hardly any individuality which is not worth the closest study. Every character has its own atmosphere, and as an actor divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given...
...wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded as the pleasures that this world can ofers, and he had found them nothing but emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that...