Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...active but heavy line. A number of likely men have joined the squad recently but not one has yet shown the qualities essential in a University lineman. It is still somewhat early to demand perfection from the men, but it is certainly time the capable ones were showing their worth...
Secondly, Harvard teaches her sons the worth and value of the past as an inspiration to present work. The great works of literature--the Odyssey, the Iliad, Shakspere's works and Dante's and Goethe's--are expressions of human life and feeling and are inspiring to men of every age. Present achievement is the more perfect realization of past phenomena. Understanding of the past is power, and this power Harvard gives through her training to her sons...
What has Harvard given to the men who go out from her walls each year? First, she has taught them to estimate the worth of their own natures and the scope of their powers. By the scholastic tests of examinations she trains men in clearer self knowledge, in concentrated and readily commanded intellectual faculties. By the intercourse with their fellows, also, men are taught within her bounds this same keener knowledge of self, and a catholic judgment of their own strengths and weaknesses. They learn these same lessons in their attempts to imitate the achievements and to follow the ideals...
...does not seem necessary to add to Professor Hart's defense of the wisdom of the Co-operative Society in voting a salary to the President at the last annual meeting; but it is worth while to point out that the recent opposition to that vote only emphasizes anew the instability of the present organization...
...worth while to call attention again to the fact that the only active function of the proposed stockholders as such is that of selecting the Directors and that there is no thought of changing the present apportionment of the Directors among the various departments and classes of the University. L. J. JOHNSON, President...