Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...length of the "quadrangle" from Holworthy to Grays is two and a half blocks, and that its average width is only a little less than one block. A walk around this enclosure is considerably over a quarter of a mile. The width of the whole yard, from Wads worth House to the gate leading to the gymnasium, is three and a half blocks. The whole length is about four blocks. The single building of Memorial Hall and Sanders theatre is over a block in length...
President Eliot is reported as saying that the Lampoon is the only college paper he considers "worth reading...
...foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly professional trainer, are not worth looking after...
...aggregates, but as organisms. Even so with other men's lives. We must value human life as a whole, not through addition of happy and miserable men, but with respect to the unity of the whole of life. This is the reason why tragic experiences may have far more worth than experiences of mere placid contentment; for tragic situations often give a unity, an organism to life, that is missed in times of joyous contentment. This last point the lecturer illustrated from the Prometheus of Shelley, comparing the grandeur of the world of struggle in the early part...
There is but one remedy. The tubs must be reset. The cost of taking out the bottom slabs, altering the sides a little and replacing the bottoms would be considerable, but it would be well worth the money expended. These tubs are in such constant demand in the afternoons that towards evening they are often far from pleasant to use. To remedy this evil would put the gymnasium in a state one degree nearer the perfection which it aims...