Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...want to call the attention of men who are interested in teaching to the urgent need at the Social Union for teachers in penmanship and bookkeeping. A large and interested class and an opportunity fully worth while await whoever is willing and able to undertake either task. E. E. Hunt at Thayer 65 will be glad to see volunteers. JAMES THAYER ADDISON...
...regret that of books like "Church Building in the Middle Ages" we could not have had more. As a teacher of the History of the Fine Arts in Harvard University Professor Norton strove, by directing attention to the finest historic monuments, to awaken an appreciation of the nature and worth of beauty, and to show that the greatest artistic achievements of past times have borne witness to what moral integrity and exalted ideals have entered into the make-up of peoples endowed with natural artistic aptitudes...
...urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection as truly as his learning did their respect. To him many a young instructor has turned in a literary or personal exigency and found in his disciplined judgment and sympathetic heart help of incalculable worth. How time has been found for this costliest sort of kindness is known to Mr. Norton alone...
...spread his teachings among great numbers; Harvard has lost a teacher through whom many of her sons have come in contact with what is best in literature and the fine arts, and a friend, besides, whose memory will be cherished in even higher esteem by those who knew his worth...
...should succeed if the committee accept their small responsibility with eagerness to carry it out. Eventually, it might well develop into a system of Senior Advisers for Freshmen, similar in a way to the Faculty Advisers and designed to supplement their efforts. It is at any rate well worth trial...