Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This little pamphlet contains in some thirty small pages, most of the information a stranger would wish to have on coming into Cambridge, and for such is well worth the small sum of money necessary for its purchase...
...average of two tens to each of the class crews rowing during the winter would give eighty men as the number using these weights daily. It would seem as if this would make it worth while to have the apparatus in the best possible condition, at least as well repaired as any of the rest of the apparatus in other parts of the gymnasium...
...purpose (in part at least) of making some study of French literature. We have too, more or less active societies devoted to History, Philosophy, Political Economy and the classics. Why then might not something of the kind be possible in connection with the English department? If it is worth while to discuss Hamlet in French, why not in English? Why should not some of the energy and time expended in the study of foreign literature be devoted to our own? Is not English literature worthy of the methods we use with other literature? None offers better material and more interesting...
...with the men we have whose knowledge of it is broad and accurate, with the advantages such a society would bring, one cannot but think that an organization devoted to English literature would supply a want which at some time or other many men have felt. Is it not worth while to attempt something however small...
...prizes are of an amount that will repay the successful contestants for their labor. In view of the present condition of the tariff, it is well that such study should be given it. The competition without doubt will be very extended, and the successful papers will be well worth the publication which is designed for them...