Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...able to shrink into remote quarters and hide their poverty. The answer to this is that the poor boy may learn in the cheerful air of comradeship, which should prevail here, that poverty implies no disgrace and is nothing to apologize for. To us the criticisms are hardly worth considering in comparison with the high aim, the democratic results, certain to be achieved, and the scholastic benefits to accrue. The only real objection we have heard is that the Freshman class is going to overflow the new buildings at once, and that some unfortunates will have to go elsewhere. Defects...
Three news editors have already been chosen from the class of 1917, leaving places for at least seven more, who will be taken on after the fall and spring news competitions next year. The competition is difficult but the work is distinctly worth while, not only as a training in accuracy in writing, and efficiency in gathering news, but also because of the broad insight that it gives into the activities of the University. In no other way may these advantages be secured, and the successful candidate is given further valuable experience as an editor of the paper, in handling...
...first of these qualifications is that magic faculty known to the craft as 'the nose for news.'-that is to say an unerring sense for the occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...
...rest, he may cultivate his intelligence as widely or as specially as he pleases, with the assurance that it will count, all of it, in the general measure of his worth. The purely technical training, the proper way to spread the facts of a fire, of an election, of a wreck, he may obtain in any school of journalism, or under the eye of the editor who takes him on. A good many editors, perhaps all editors, have an ingrained prejudice for training their own men in the style which they prefer. It is certainly not a bad thing...
...however, that with fair weather, the competition Friday and Saturday should be the most spectacular in years, and should lead to the making of several new records, for almost every college is represented by a few individual stars. But with the new scoring system, the first-place man is worth only one point more than the man who finishes second, so that it is not the team with a few individual stars that should win, but the team uniformly strong in every event. Herein lies Yale's chances for victory. Besides stars like Brown, Poucher, Potter, and Oler, Yale...