Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...improvements in the Graduate Department are well worth notice. In 1891-92 there were offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, "primarily for graduates," 81 full courses and 24 half-courses. This year there are 92 full courses and 52 half-courses. This gives an increase of 11 full courses and 28 half-courses. In order to complete the courses now offered in the Graduate School, a man would work twenty-nine and one-half years, taking the regular four courses a year...
...editorial is quite to the point. Its sentiment is one which we believe the whole University can sympathize with. One paragraph is well worth quoting...
...read. They are written in a happy mood and are in their way charmants. To speak the truth we do not remember to have read undergraduate editorials more entertaining, for many a long day - although of course, our memory may be poor. At any rate, they are well worth reading. The leader, it is confidently believed, expresses the views of the whole thinking community and it is trusted that next year. the rush will be conspicuous by its omission...
...contents of the present number include a number of very interesting articles, which can only be mentioned here: The opening contribution is entitled "The Worth of a University Education" and is signed by Professor A. P. Peabody, '26. Theodore Roosevelt '80, has an article on "Harvard Men in Politics" and President Eliot, '53, writes of "The School's Examination Board." Wendell P. Garrison's paper is called. "The Alumnus and his Son," and C. F. Fulsom '62, publishes a review of the career of the late Henry Ingersoll Bowditch. The other articles are as follows: "The New Movement in Humanity...
...Holy Cross in '77, he has since achieved much success as a lawyer and orator. He made the speech of the evening at the last Democratic convention in Boston. What such men have to say concerning the attitude of college men on the pending national contest should be well worth hearing...