Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from a large number of candidates, usually during four competitions, two Freshman year, and two Sophomore year, though the competition for Freshmen during the first half was omitted this year. One, two, three, or even four editors may be taken from each competition, according as they have proved their worth to the satisfaction of the managing editor. For the first few days the work is very general and consists of picking up about the College any items of peculiar interest. Any candidate who shows that he is in earnest easily survives this stage and is given every possible assistance...
...first half-year. Under the careful supervision of the managing editor each of the assistants takes entire charge of the paper two nights each week. He supervises the work of the candidates, corrects the copy, and directs the make-up. Each assistant has a personal interest in the general worth and appearance of his paper, for at the mid-year election the best of the three is chosen managing editor for the second half-year...
Thus far the competitor has been subjected to routine duties. He has now an opportunity to assert himself and exert a very considerable influence upon the worth of the paper. He has entire charge of the candidates and of the news end. He assigns stories of general interest and plans for the cuts that are to appear from time to time. He criticizes the paper from day to day for the benefit of his assistants. Every morning he must "make out the dummy," which consists of assigning to the individual candidates the topics of the day and designating...
...believe that they would attend with moderate regularity. For on every Thursday afternoon during the winter there is an opportunity to hear a very good choir, trained by a skilled leader, render a uniformly excellent program of spiritual music. The men who conduct, the services are always well worth hearing, and the time of day cannot be regarded with the aversion which is bestowed on the hour of morning prayers. Afternoons spent in this way will be remembered with pleasure long after the memory of the matinee in town has faded away...
These men who come to preach in Appleton are worth knowing, however slightly. They represent wide interests and their reputation is more than local. A five minutes' conversation or simply a handshake gives a man a personal interest in anything the other man does which brings him to the attention of the public. There are doubtless hundreds of men today who wish they had taken advantage of the opportunity to drop in at Wadsworth House and shake hands with Phillips Brooks or Edward Everett Hale. It gives a man a certain pleasure to be able to say he knows such...