Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when it was decided to wear caps and gowns after the spring recess. This custom was found so inconvenient, however, that when the time came men soon got tired of conforming to it, and for this reason the '98 Class Day Committee decided that it would not be worth while to raise the question again this year...
...conception of life is that there is nothing worth living for but love. So he admires "Manon Lescaut" and " Don Juan." Love thus conceived is a sombre passion, a sacred...
...work of the firemen, they didn't do any worth mentioning until the crisis was passed. One ladder-truck was on hand with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
Would it not, then, be most fitting that all undergraduates who have had the privilege of attending his courses should take some action to show their appreciation of his worth and their recognition of their obligations...
...public recognition of this by the Athletic Committee in the gift of the trophies, will assure them that Harvard does not forget those who by their own efforts have added to the list of victories. Such recognition adds reality to general appreciation and makes that appreciation seem the more worth gaining...