Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai cable companies, figuring they have lost several hundred thousand dollars' worth of business during the 15 clays their lines have been cut, spent $19,500 on a daring tugboat expedition which laid 26 mi. of cable and restored service last week. Three days later something or somebody cut the cables again and Shanghai dispatches once more went exclusively by radio...
...romanticist Hutchins of Chicago University predicted that the national scholarships would be unsuccessful. Unfortunately the theorist did not take into consideration the practicality of the scientist, for the gradual introduction and extension of the plan have insured its success. President Conant felt that the idea provided a chance, well worth society's while to offer, for a few individuals of exceptional character and ability who lacked financial means to develop their intellect in a great university such as Harvard...
...purpose the enrichening our civilization by giving impetus to native art and sciences, by bringing focus on the ideals of America, by nationalizing all sectional virtues and talents. This is a big order, rather creamy on the surface, but with a strong foundation; it is the sort of ideal worth supporting, and surely the extension of President Conant's national scholarships provides an excellent way of furthering...
...first year student at the Business School, Liston started his coaching duties yesterday morning. He is 22 years old, weighs 202 pounds, and stands 6 feet 1 inch in height. His home is in Fort Worth, Texas...
Tunis, who is best known to Harvard readers as the author of "Was College Worth While?" based, he said, on reports from members of the Class of 1911, declares in his article, that the whole problem of getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go around, and a wild scramble for students has been the result." The competition between colleges has in fact, Tunis declares, become so intense that prospective students are being bribed, bought, and even kidnapped in order to build enrollments. A case in Indiana is reported where three students were transported...