Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Youth today owes to society three distinct services. One is moral idealism. No youth of any worth looks forward to his future occupation simply on an economic basis. He looks beyond, and hopes to make his profession better. And society has a right to demand this view from every youth. Linked with this must be the most strenuous purpose. We are not born with purposes firm set, but have to work our way with the strongest efforts. For this effort youth is the only fit time. Finally, society has a right to demand of youth a firmness and thoroughness that...
...appropriate sentences very prettily illustrated by full page pictures. There is also an excellent picture of Trinity church. The paper and print are both good, and on almost every page are tasteful marginal illustrations, making the little volume very attractive, although not over well bound. The book is well worth having, especially to Harvard men who would be glad to know many of the wise and good things said in the sermons of the great minister...
...loves them all - there is no one whom he despises or insults." Zola and Kipling are more briefly and less favorably treated. It is impossible to give a criticism here of each article, we can only say that the number is good throughout and that everything in it is worth careful reading...
...thing on earth worth great sacrifice is the culture and development of our own manhood. This life is only an entranceway to a greater life hereafter and our supreme object here should be to enter into that life as men. Whatever sacrifice there is necessary for that object should be gladly borne as bringing us nearer that divine manhood which is the Ideal of life...
...training, expression and speaking. The new course may in a way be considered a natural sequence to the work which has gone before; only those who have already obtained some proficiency will be allowed to read. But aside from the practice of reading, one will surely find the course worth his attention. A well chosen list of authors from the time of Shakespeare to Rudyard Kipling will be discussed and characteristic passages read. It is also stated that the novel and plays, with accounts of famous modern performances, will occupy the greater portion of the time. Mr. Copeland thus offers...