Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such that all that would be necessary would be to open the doors to the impatient students without any restrictions. But in the students of this perverse generation this aroused little enthusiasm. They had as little to do with learning as possible, thinking their other engagements much more worth while, or made derogatory remarks about the futility of it all. It was the current belief of this generation that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would...
...wearisome grinding at set tasks. There can be too much studying of courses but not too much work upon subjects. One may welcome Mr. Ware's ideal of undergraduate activity--that the maturer graduates should be treated with the respect they really deserve, and by pointing attention to things worth doing to arouse in them the intelligent interest which they are ready to manifest. This might, as the writer suggests, be afforded in the later years of undergraduate life by leading them to concentrate upon practical questions of real difficulty...
...their consent to the exercise by the Council of all authority which the Faculty may see fit in the future to delegate. This opens the way for an increase in the Council's powers as soon as that body has convinced the Faculty of its earnestness and of its worth. Without such a provision, any increase of the Council's authority through the liberality of the Faculty would have been without ratification by the undergraduates, and might have lacked their hearty support, on the ground that such augmented power was an encroachment upon individual rights...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Musical Clubs held yesterday afternoon it was decided that no trip would be taken during the Christmas recess. The reason for this action is that not enough concerts could be arranged to make the trip worth while...
...adopting some such course, there would be a Student Council of real worth and one that would possess the hearty approval of the undergraduates. If, on the other hand, the present scheme is ratified we will be in possession of a Council with a hastily constructed and faulty constitution. A constitution which precludes the possibility of the new Council becoming a real and effective force in the undergraduate world...