Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...open to competition. The average board is composed of ten editors, who are chosen from a large number of candidates during four competitions--two Freshman year, and two Sophomore year. One, two, three, or even four editors may be taken from each competition, according as they have proved their worth to the satisfaction of the managing editor. At first the work is very general and consists of picking up about the College any items of peculiar interest. Any candidate who shows that he is in earnest easily survives this stage, and is given every possible assistance by conferences with...
...servant of the people, he said, must be one of them to appreciate their needs, to understand their feelings, and to be able to represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life...
...done, so many strong, clean, trained hands needed to do it. But it must be remembered that present day public life means sacrifice and it is battle from beginning to end. Each victory means a contest farther on, but after all there is no effort so much worth while as for this national republic of free and righteous...
...sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography, a brief table of the chief events in Scottish history might be worth adding; and the long account of Edinburgh Castle would be very greatly illuminated by one of the numerous old plans of this grand but much altered fortress...
After a three week's trial the system adopted by the Harvard Dining Association has abundantly proved its worth. The figures speak for themselves. Cost of general board has barely exceeded the Corporation's guarantee, and but for an error in judgment during the second week, would have been below the $4 figure. Average total cost of board was less than $5 per week, an improvement over the average total cost for the past four years. The figures of membership are equally encouraging...