Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...photographs are interesting especially as records of college life and many of them are also of real artistic worth. The pictures of the Yard given by W. B. Swift '01, were taken when the trees were bare of leaves, and the camera was so placed as to bring in the outlines of the branches with striking effect. The pictures of Hollis and Stoughton, of Memorial and of the Johnston Gate are especially beautiful...
...first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully by adaptation to surrounding conditions, it should be worth while for all who come to Cambridge to learn something about the nature of the neighboring country...
...which came from under it deposited sand in great quantities as they approached the sea. These rivers flowed through ice arches under the glaciers; and remnants of them can still be seen in the low curving hills in some parts of the state. At the same time, it is worth remembering that we have near by all that is left of a mountain range, once as grand as any in the word, in the White Mountains and in detached peaks such as Monadnock...
...more? What is to be said of its beauty, of the mystery surrounding its growth? The cross itself is but a couple of beams; but does this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured by science; the pure in heart alone...
...text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...