Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Society as official purchasing agent for the University is worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge...
...Yale and Princeton regular attendance at morning chapel is compulsory, and every year the senior class at Yale votes to have the custom continued. This shows that men who attend prayers regularly deem it worth the effort. While we do not approve of and would not for a moment advocate compulsory attendance at Harvard, we do wish to call the attention of the University to the fact that a short service is held in Appleton Chapel every morning at 8.45. There is some justification for this, for, as a rule, less than 100 men are scattered about the vacant pews...
...Harvard and the man who has done equivalent work along other lines will be on an equal footing rather than that the standard for either will be lessened. It will be harder for the "crammed" student with no record of consistent study behind his examination to prove his worth to the committee on admission, than for the man who has done conscientious work without reference to the examination...
...already been taken to create an American library in connection with the institute and a considerable collection of American books has been donated by publishers and authors. The idea is to make American literature better known to the Germans who have not formerly had the opportunity to appreciate its worth...
...real worth of the Degree with Distinction were brought to the student's attention earlier in his College career, there is no doubt that many more men would become candidates for distinction than now do so. At present a number of men with low records for the first part of their College course, later desire to secure a Degree with Distinction. Their previous lack of accomplishment is often a serious handicap. There are even more men, however, who give no second thought to the Degree with Distinction and dismiss it at once as something beyond their scope of endeavor...