Word: worth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worthy of the preferred prize and production. It would be a disgrace to our dramatic talent to let the chance go by unchallenged. Competitors of any sort are an eleventh hour genus, and so we are not in dispair. When the competition finally closes we are confident that something worth while will be handed in. Harvard has a reputation for play-writing that must be maintained and the incentives to its maintenance are continually forth coming. The conclusion may be left to the imagination of the reader...
...understood. It means that Harvard is entering with practical spirit into the life of the community, while, at the same time, her students are getting the benefits of work in a law office even before leaving their studies. From both points of view the Legal Aid Bureau is worth while. We hope that its success will increase this year and its permanency be secured...
...thanked for saying that so well. But the conclusion of the homily will certainly be dangerous doctrine for Freshmen unless it is very carefully read and perhaps even then. It seems to mean that in this strange, new college world the things for which men work unitedly are not worth while, and that the things which men get by keeping apart are valuable. What it does mean, of course, is something quite different; namely, that we are to "prove all things: hold fast that which is good." As for the counsel about "leading well," one hopes that the average Freshman...
...attend the President's first appearance before the College this year and that they will find the exercises sufficiently attractive to induce them to continue their attendance regularly. Each morning of this week the daily Chapel services will be conducted by a man famous among Harvard men and well worth hearing. Every student should, therefore, make it a point to attend...
...time of their first bow to the world. True, the greater part of the cargoes of most of these vessels, like those of the shingle boats that children freight for journeys down a brook, may well be jettisoned; but doubtless with many a hapless cargo some things really worth saving go down. A few light, gay, shiny bits do float, and sail gaily down life's brook, sparkling in the sunlight even brighter than the ripples of the stream. There are people who have been known to chase a "continued story" through the numbers of a bound volume...