Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...October 6 the team scored 51 points against Syracuse. It was a case of the old game against the new, and the latter proved its worth...
...relic and type of our ancestors' worth...
...report of the committee, is that the classes are now so large that men of considerable intellectual force and wide interests are often crowded out by men whose sole aim is study. Grades have ceased to be in every case a just statement of a man's intellectual worth. Hence a larger membership, and more freedom of choice are necessary. That this freedom may be exercised intelligently methods for a careful examination of each candidate's claims to election must be arranged. This is made possible by the plan of membership committees...
...interest and in which, because of that interest, he will work with real pleasure and happiness. In that way, he will learn the pleasure of work and will get into the habit of doing work with lively interest. That attitude will be most valuable in after life, as everything worth while in the world is accomplished by work. Secondly, the new student should choose good companionship. He should choose an environment and surroundings that will lift him up and not drag, him down. If he makes those two choices rightly, if he chooses the right work and the right friends...
...will receive it in the best spirit. You are to be congratulated on entering Harvard, because there is no other university where Freshmen stand so high. An interesting thing to watch is the general sifting of men in a class. Here a man stands for what he is worth. Let every man support every cause connected with 1910, so that when he graduates Harvard University may feel it is to be congratulated on having the Class of 1910 to its credit...