Word: worth
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...recognized advantages which are open to everyone, the Westerner has the advantage of being in a new and different situation, so he very naturally looks at things from quite a different standpoint than does the Eastern man; and is perhaps more able to take things for what they are worth. Whereas if he were in a Western college or in an Eastern college composed largely of Western men, he would be in a more congenial atmosphere from the beginning, and his view-point would change but little. I do not mean to say that the atmosphere here is uncongenial...
...reply that if it were not for these outside people the lecturer or the musicians would have but a slender audience. We are 10th to admit this. For we believe that many a student is kept away because he has learned by experience that it is scarcely worth while to take a back seat in a lecture, no matter how interesting, when every day he hears others without inconvenience. But we would not for a moment intimate that we advocate the exclusion of the public from lectures and concerts in University halls. On the contrary, we would welcome them most...
...another way in which the desired end may be attained, but it will require the unstinted assistance of the Faculty. we believe that in the past too little consideration has been shown by the authorities for the western representation. Our vacations are far too short to make it worth while for many westerners to go home, and the refusal last Christmas to grant the usual time allowance added a new grievance. It is by little matters of this sort that we have obtained a reputation west of here not wholly deserved by any means-for being an inhospitable College...
...whole, although P.A.Hutchinson's "The Secret of the Sphinx"remains mysterious even after the revelations-but that may be the reader's fault. There is a striving after expression in the two pieces, "Love and Death" and "Love by the Sea," by J.H.Wheelock, but the effort was worth the making, and the result is not unsatisfactory. The "De Senectute" of W.Tinekom-Fernandez is distinetly good, and the "Fair Harvard" of B.A.Gould, while unequal, has a lift and a swing that take the attention and keep it. J.T.Addison's "Solomon's Ship" is suggestive of color and feeling,and pleases...
Yesterday the various eights were made up as follows. Ellis and Tilton each filled a place on two of the eights. The order of the crews as given does not necessarily signify their respective worth...