Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard was the last of all the colleges to abolish Sunday morning prayers, which was done in 1874. The more modern and uneventful history of our chapel services, every one is acquainted with, and it is not worth the time to say anything about them...
...estate of the late Henry Farnam is estimated to be worth $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. It goes to the widow of the deceased and her four sons and one daughter. Upon her death and that of a son, Henry W. Farnam, who lives with her, the homestead in New Haven is willed in trust to Yale College, to be used as a residence by the president or one or more professors whom the president may designate. To maintain the house, that is, to pay insurance, taxes, etc., a plot of land adjourning the house, fronting 80 feet...
...stimulating a living interest in our government, and developing the material out of which statesmen are made broadening the opinions of men of many states, and the very men who could if they would, and should if they could, have an influence for the better in politics, it is worth an effort in this year of grace...
...have not been to any considerable extent producers of paupers, loafers, tramps, or other kinds of incapable. the fact seems rather to be that college-bred men estimate more justly than men otherwise bred the value of college breeding. They know what it is-what it is worth, and what it is not worth ; both of which many, from absence of knowledge, misunderstand and misconceive...
...Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object is simply to show by taking representatives from Harvard alone, how many of the foremost men in America for the last two hundred and fifty years have received a college training, -men who owe to this fact much of their greatness. The record speaks for itself. Although I intend...