Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...says there is thorough sagacity shown in the arrangement of the dialogue. There would have been if there had been nine-tenths less of it. And, as for the leading lady, Miss Shirley, whom F. E. P. '18 liked so well, will he please tell me what she said worth while outside of "perfectly ducky" and "perfectly" this and "perfectly" that...
Isolated bits of knowledge constitute our fuel for thought, but the product of our thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which...
...Take Your Medicine," now running at the Hollis, offers Alexandra Carlisle and Einar Linden an excellent opportunity to display a great deal of spontaneous art. Miss Carlisle is worth going to, merely to hear her voice, which is a great relief from the variety of speaking that greets the "tired student" from the runway. Mr. Linden has a difficult part, and makes the fullest possible use of his opportunities. From the very start he captures the sympathy of the audience by his skillful representation of temperament. To do this, he exhibits a remarkable variety of truly cultivated parlor tricks. Even...
...suggest that Yale completely rest her players between the two final games; if a game is worth playing at all it is worth playing with the best one has. But a revised schedule, which would put a less vigorous game in between the two final games for both Princeton and Yale, would meet modern conditions and be much fairer to both than the present one-sided arrangement can ever...
...musician, and also devotes much of his time to the management of a boys' school which he has established in India and is conducting on principles of self-government similar to those of the George Junior Republic. The views of such a many-sided personality are certainly worth listening to, even if they do not coincide with those of our Occidental civilization...