Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there is something else for which we are indebted to Professor Clemen. It is for setting before us the worth of art and the artistic spirit in national culture. There is no lesson which the American people need more than this. He has been teaching, too, that great art meets the needs of leading people, their desires, hopes and aspirations. This is a lesson, too, which our whole nation needs...
...that it is far more important for us to understand Shaw and Wilde than Milton. Perhaps he himself does not enough understand the eternal greatness of such men as Milton to appreciate the triviality of such men as Wilde. His sudden suggestion of a dramatic club is sensible and worth while. Professor Baker, when he returns, would gladly co-operate with students willing to undertake such an enterprise. It is fearless criticism of ourselves among ourselves, such as this, that goes far to improve our Harvard standards
...Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other pieces of verse, the "Tempest" is worth mentioning...
...Whereas, Death hath struck from us a man whose efficiency as a teaching scholar we valued supremely, whose erudition we knew to be extraordinary, yet whose personal kindness and "patient gentility" in his dealings with us we loved as qualities worth emulating, in our dealings with each other...
...practically the exclusive attention of the squad for more than two months, and for almost as long absorbs the interest of a vast crowd of sideline shouters; and it disregards the real object of College sport--a general participation in healthful exercise for recreation and larger acquaintance. It is worth while considering whether the whole system of athletics should not be changed, either to one completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby '05, in the "Outlook" for October 5, 1907, to one of fewer outside games and more intra-college competition. Mr. Derby's scheme would...