Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before the season comes to a close it seems worth while to make a fresh attempt to explain the financial policy of the Athletic Committee during the past year and to answer some of the criticisms which its action has provoked. To begin with, let me try to clear away a few persistent errors...
...perhaps worth noticing that most of the arguments recently used against the present system would apply just as well to the attempt now being made to raise among the graduates a large sum for the permanent endowment of the University. Where would Harvard be if its graduates were to take the tone--"The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance"? Is it a fatal objection to the contributions now being made to the general fund that they are "unevenly distributed," and many men of small means give relatively more than some of their richer brethren? Would it not be fairer...
...postponement of knowledge in God's education of the human race; but what a step is taken towards sanity and self-control and peace of mind when one looks, upon the world as the scene of spiritual intention and desire, which give to its perplexing incidents their unity and worth. The religious life is like those Egyptian temples which in their outer courts looked through great free vistas to the fertile fields and the deep blue sky; but as the worshipers sought the central shrine, door after door swung open until at last the single life bowed in the central...
...Corporation yesterday completed the purchase of a lot of land on the corner of Longwood avenue and Wiggles, worth street, Brookline, for the site of the New Dental School building. This lot adjoins the land occupied by the New Medical School building, and contains 17,840 squares feet of land, with 80 feet on Longwood avenue, and 223 feet on Wigglesworth street. Plans for the new building have already been drawn and efforts are being made to raise the balance of the money necessary to begin work at once...
...chief excuse for the new rule is that the average price for game other than those with Yale is ten cents. If we are to judge our sports, however, on a monetary basis, we shall have to admit that there have been some Princeton games worth more than ten cents and some Yale games worth less than a dollar and a half...