Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussions of the proposed House Plan no one seems to have thought it worth while to give any attention to that feature of the plan which proposes to exclude the Freshmen from the advantages of the new system. I don't know whether that is because no one loves a Freshman anyway, or merely because no one wastes much thought on Freshmen, but I believe so strongly that a grave mistake will be made if the Freshmen are not included in the House organizations that I cannot refrain from registering my protest...
Space does not permit the mention of other very important advantages to the Freshmen which would be secured by abandoning their segregation. I should like, however, to suggest an advantage to the administrative authorities which is well worth their consideration. Every one recognizes that under the plan as at present proposed, the problem of the assignment of the Sophomores to the several houses is going to present many serious difficulties. The authorities indulge in glittering generalities, and profess to feel sanguine of its solution, but underneath the surface they must be really worried over the prospect of an annual chorus...
...acquaintance declare they would take more science courses, were it not for the interference of laboratory hours with valuable extra-curricular activities. One man has even been deterred from specializing in chemistry because of this conflict, and because he felt athletics and various student enterprises were more broadening and worth while...
...nearly six billions of production, New York paid less than one billion dollars in wages.* Thus New York workers made about $6.10 worth of merchandise for every dollar they received in salary. Inasmuch as the ratio of production to salary in such an extra-New York organization as General Electric Co. was 2.6 to 1 (TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence...
...Translated by H. G. Baynes-Dodd Mead ($4). The first consecutive statement, in English, of psychoanalysis as revised by Jung, the unorthodox Freudian with the mystical tendency. His explanation reveals a great vitality of thinking that is cluttered by the very mass of his thoughts-difficult reading, but well worth the trouble...