Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...George Carey Barclay, of New York, N. Y.; Hugh Bridgman, of Salem; Chester William Cook, of Worcester; Phillip Henry Currier, of Wellesley Hills; Stillman Roberts Dun-ham, Jr., of Allston; Paul Blodgett Elliott, of Dorchester; Frederick Taylor Fisher, of Chicago, Ill.; Abram Waldo French, of West Newton; Robert Ells-worth Gross, of West Newton; Joseph Henry Poett Howard, of Chester, N. S.; William Coit Hubbard, of Chicago, Ill.; Royal Little, of Brookline; Francis Parkman, of Boston; Howard Pratt Perry, of Newton Centre; William Henry Potter, Jr., of Watertown; Horatio Rogers, of Chestnut Hill; Quentin Roosevelt, of Oyster...
...Committee. The increasing tendency of college athletics is more and more towards the calculating, efficient ideal of modern business, and away from the recreative standard of true sport for sport's sake. The adoption of a progressive suggestion may mean a certain amount of sacrifice, but it is well worth while when the step tends towards better sportsmanship...
That there is a distinct demand for plays of this type is shown by the welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...
...human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced it in its plentitude. They find it somehow well worth while, and they will cling to it. The ordinary observance of Christmas may represent a popular weakness, but if so it is a weakness of 99 human hearts out of every hundred. It will have its way. --Boston Transcript...
Most men do not know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...