Word: worth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...burden all college men, is lack of confidence in one's own abilities. "I've never run a boys' club; I don't think I could do it" is the pathetic, hesitating complaint. And although no one denies that the ability to handle a boys' club is a faculty worth cultivating, the natural fear of facing singlehanded a whole troop of noisy, critical, sarcastically impudent youngsters is not pleasant when viewed from the comfort of an arm-chair. However, victories are not won in arm-chairs; and the test of this pudding, as many men will testify...
...While I recognize that great good is done by travelling fellowships intended to provide the means of study and research for young men who are preparing themselves for a scholar's career, I have in mind a different object, which is that of benefiting young men of worth, who, without necessarily having attained to the highest scholarship in college, have made good use of their opportunities and give promise of success in professional or business careers...
Physiology I (erstwhile known as Hygiene I) is a course widely elected by Harvard undergraduates. Unfortunately, however, the College authorities have not seen fit to make the course compulsory. Although English, French, and German are prescribed, it has not been considered worth while to force a man to take that which will not only enable him to care for his body with some degree of intelligence, but also to understand some of the laws of nature which parents too often neglect to teach their children. Moreover, "First Aid to the Injured" is taught in Physiology...
...seems worth while therefore to consider whether the undergraduate is given the necessary opportunity and incentive to study the Bible in a broad way, disinterested from considerations of creeds and dogmas. If there is a course that fulfills this condition, it is not known to the mass of undergraduates. If such an introductory course were inaugurated, it is reasonable to suppose that it would be as popular, and certainly as valuable, as one on Greek philosophy. We have courses on Tennyson, Bacon, and "The Story of King Arthur," which many are always eager to take. Why not such...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Geological Formations of Montana." (Illustrated by Lantern Slides and by Fossils collected on the Summer School Excursion of 1910). MR. Edward Wiggies-Worth. "The Principal Cyclonic Rainfall of April, 1911." Mr. W.G. Reed, Mineralogical Lecture Room, 4.30 P.M. Open to graduates and to members of the University...