Word: worth
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...legal difficulty is named by the gentleman who objects to the substitute plan; and it was perhaps hardly to be supposed that any one who favored strongly the features of a certain scheme would deem any expense, however slight or for whatever protective purpose, incurred by a substitute plan, "worth while." GORDON IRELAND...
...scheme of Mr. Ireland presents other impracticable features. Even if some of the items proposed should be possible at law the bookkeeping expense connected with these complications seems hardly worth while. The making of these 1600 shareholders trustees for purchasers raises the forbidding prospect of complication upon complication. The 1000 student buyers left out of this plan must, after all rely upon the honor of the 1600 to do the proper thing by them; so that the legal situation in the scheme of Mr. Ireland is on last analysis no better than in the plan voted. Under the plan voted...
...stock every year would inevitably be within the reach of the Society. after the holder's annual receipt expired; there would be absolutely no hunting up of departed members to get their shares away from them; and the extra bookkeeping involved by this 16 percent transfer is surely well worth paying for if it enables the student members of the Society to retain legally effective control in their own hands. To secure representative votes, all elections should be required in the By-Laws to be held by Australian ballot. (which is no more than is now done several times every...
Irregular development and inconsistent and startling reversal of form throughout the season are causes which at this time prevent a true estimate of the Harvard team's worth. Secret practice, however, which has been going on during the past week, has corrected some of the earlier faults, and by perfecting various formations, has immeasurably increased the attacking power of the eleven. High playing by both linemen and backs are some of the habits which the team has so far been unable to overcome, and these will undoubtedly account for any lack of effectiveness in either stopping the ball or advancing...
...every contention drawn from an outside source be followed by full information as to the source and this even to the detail of a writer's official title or the page and name of the volume quoted. Mere rhetoric and as sertion unaccompanied by proof are considered of slight worth, and while the skiltul use of persuasion is encouraged, the ultimate goal is conviction by accompanied by re-enforcing evidence...