Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...specialist cares to study them: but whenever objects of immediate interest are selected and grouped apart from the host of equally valuable articles, they deserve to be examined by those whose tastes would not induce them to seek out widely separate objects which, gathered together, are well worth their consideration...
...team is made up of strong players, and of fighters who will use everything they know to win a victory. Let the undergraduates do all that is in their power to assure the team that the University is behind them to a man, and that no one who is worth while will admit defeat any more than the players themselves...
...after all, what few marks we have left of a distinctly collegiate way of living, and the culture of them is but a natural devotion to what later cannot be paralleled or refound. They, or more and better than they, must inevitably be the foundation of any college life worth the name. Learning needs but the laboratory and the lecture room; but it is by the distinctions of the external and attendant circumstances of physical surroundings and social organization that a large part of a college's influence on character is measured. With us it would seem that what...
...members of the Hall secured board at less than $5.50 per week. There is no clear reason why a majority of the members should not eat at a cost not exceeding this figure, and if they can persuade their friends that the service and variety of Memorial Hall are worth the price charged, the membership should increase so as to reduce the price to a minimum. We should remember that Memorial Hall is primarily a University institution and that it deserves to receive general support; otherwise it will degenerate into a purely financial proposition. A wide interest is the only...
...opportunities for seeing places and institutions which others come far to visit. By this we do not refer merely to places of historical or literary interest in the neighborhood of Boston. There are many such excursions which would occupy a free afternoon or holiday and which would be well worth the time devoted to them. But there are in our very midst places whose existence is scarcely known except to specialization or advanced students. We refer to the museums...