Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everything but You," from a box. He then introduces his parents and himself while the cinematic audience applauds vigorously. Belle Baker (Momma Gibson), experienced vaudeville chanteuse, is worth watching except at those moments when, partially choking down her sobs, she sings. Best shot: the baseball game in. the vacant lot behind the theatre...
...futile . . . engendered by hysteria." Replying, Chancellor Magnes warned: "It is impossible to continue as heretofore. . . . Without this realization the Jewish public the world over is bound to suffer disappointment and disillusionment in its hopes with regard to the Jewish national homeland in Palestine. "I consider the Jewish Palestine worth while only if made possible on the highest ethical plane. The bayonets such as now support the Jewish settlement in Palestine are repugnant to the spirit of Judaism." Upholding Chancellor Magnes were Dr. Hugo Bergmann, fellow-faculty-member, and Felestin, an Arab publication. Said Felestin: "Had the Zionists attempted to work...
...problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all." The vital office of philosophy today, says philosopher-educating Dewey, is "to search out . . . the obstructions" in life; to focus reflection upon...
...opportunity for progressive effort which the inclusion of female voices offers in choral music will widen the repertoire of the Glee Club beyond the unfortunately narrow field in which they were previously working. Such a departure from the conventional college glee club practice is a worth while addition to the policy of advancing the standards of the Glee Club library which Dr. Davidson has so assiduously executed...
...this is to be explained by Yale's formidable reputation, acquired in the eighties, when Walter Camp had a monopoly on knowledge of the game, or else by the magic of the figure on the Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical prowess. So it is natural...