Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...army went through in Cuba. "McGullop's Slide," a character sketch with rather a skilful climax, and "Mrs. Johnson's Triumph," by G. B. Fernald, are the other stories in the issue. The editorial, on "College Spirit," treats with effectiveness a very old subject which is, nevertheless, still worth writing about...
...contests, the sparring match and the archery contest of Anchises' funeral games. With these pictures of the Roman games and their standards of competition are contrasted descriptions of our modern college athletics and the contrast, as Mr. Collier draws it, is certainly unfavorable to the ancients. The article is worth reading to anyone who wishes to learn a little of the ancient methods of conducting athletic games...
...takes a dollar to send a dollar to mission fields." For the truth is that the margin of expense for getting money employed in mission fields is only four per cent; and that a hundred dollars given here, on account of the difference in money and in prices, is worth from three to ten hundred dollars in India and China...
Both for the intrinsic merit of its contents and for the light it throws on the quality of recent Harvard literary work, the book is well worth having. Published by L. C. Page & Co. Price...
...years ago, the speaker said, an effort was made at Yale to interest a group of Japanese students in devotional Bible study. These men, after consideration, declared they were willing to go into study of religious subjects, but wanted to know whether it was worth while to take up a book written two thousand years ago. The objection raised by these students lingers with other men today. Is Bible study adaptable and helpful to men of the present?--they ask, and sometimes answer...