Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such magazines. That which the three Harvard magazines follow is that the practice which is given to young writers warrants the existence of as many papers as can support themselves. The other ideal, a worthier one in our opinion, is that any article of any kind is not worth publishing simply for the sake of giving practice and encouragement to writers. The production of one undergraduate magazine which should represent the combined efforts of all students ambitious to write, which should aim at something beyond the goal of bare self-support, and, most of all, whose various departments should offer...
...second fact which the published comments indicate is that, next after great personalities, undergraduates most highly appreciate painstaking care in the preparation of lectures and in the administration of courses. This fact is so well worth remembering as to make the Seniors' insistence on it of considerable value...
...editors. Surely the papers miss their mark if they do not give some stimulus to thought and offer a medium for undergraduate expression. The columns of all the papers are gaping open to any member of the University burdened with a new idea, or anything worth saying; but for some reason, we blush to suggest laziness, extraordinarily few articles are forthcoming, except from those who have to "fill" the papers for the press...
...rules with regard to probation are generally and thoroughly misunderstood, thereby creating no too cordial feeling between the undergraduates and the College Office, it seems worth while to explain that the distinction of probation is conferred and recalled practically by the machinations of an unwritten rule, and not at the whim and fancy of the much-abused Administrative Board...
...will of Isaac C. Wyman of Salem, disposing of an estate estimated at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000, was filed for probate Saturday at Salem. The largest bequest, property estimated as worth several millions, is given to Princeton University for the establishment and maintenance of the proposed graduate department of that institution...