Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fail to be of benefit; but, further than this, there is the discipline of the military training, valuable in peace as well as in the event of war. Considered as a profitable way of spending the long vacation, for those who are still undecided, the idea is at least worth serious consideration...
Moreover, it may be worth considering that a club that can claim the activity of its members for only a single year can scarcely hope to be of any permanent value or to achieve anything of moment during each year of its existence. Each year will mean practically complete reorganization and a life wholly dependent upon the varying ability of the men who may happen that year to compose...
...good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas, any more than time spent with a hook and line is fully occupied with catching fish," is worth saying anywhere...
...that, after the loss has been sustained, there will be no recovering from the confidence man, for he will have fulfilled his contract to the letter. For three or four successive years he has played the same game. His unlucky victims contracted for six hundred dollars worth of calendars (one thousand of them) to be retailed at a dollar apiece. The calendars were delivered and hurriedly accepted. Perhaps half or more of them were later found to be damaged beyond use. The contracts read that no replacements would be made after acceptance of the goods. Thus the first losses were...
...Commons still remains very bad. At supper the bread was mere dough; that is, it was not half baked. I have not eaten in commons for a week past one dollar's worth of anything what- ever...