Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fund for building originally subscribed in Chicago, $115,000 has been sent in and not one-tenth of the time has elapsed when the whole subscriptions become payable. This does not include the ten acres deeded to the University by Marshall Field. This property is estimated as worth...
Last year about $70,000 worth of business was done, while it is understood that the Yale co-operative did but about $10,000 worth. On this basis at the retail prices of the regular trade a conservative estimate makes the saving to the college by the co-operative system about $10,000. How much more it saves indirectly, by making the extortion system of the old time trust system of Cambridge tradesmen impossible, it is difficult...
...concluding lecture of the course undertakes the application of Idealism to the ethical and religious problems. Of these in particular the problem as to the worth of life, and the existence of evil, is taken, not as if it were the only great problem of the group, but because, in the discussions of it, are brought together a number of important considerations of a moral and religious type...
...moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox of life, which was at the centre of Schopenhauer's pessimistic argument. And one must frankly admit the impossibility, from the finite point of view, of any rational insight into the concrete meaning...
...cage of the Carey Athletic building will begin on Wednesday afternoon. It will be arranged so that each man will be for a certain time under the coaching of John Clarkson. of the Boston League team. All the men will be given every chance to show their worth, but as soon as possible the second-rate men will be weeded out so as not to take the coach's limited time which may be more palatably spent on the most promising candidates. The men weeded out are not to be dropped, however; they are to devote their attention...