Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...join for the sake of the pleasure derived from sculling around the river watching the crews, and using the six and four oars when the crews are not using them. For those who wish to train the attractions are greatly increased, the prizes are to be quite valuable, worth possibly between eight or ten dollars apiece, one for each man of the first winning crew. There is a likelihood of our spring races occurring in conjunction with those of the Union Boat Club; having one or more races in common, and others distinct. If, as it has been suggested...
...their letters, they must needs elbow their way up to the front and get some friend to ask for them. The line is thus often kept motionless for two or three minutes, while one man is asking for the host of friends standing around. The matter seems scarcely worth calling attention to, since it is presumably the result of thoughtlessness, and not of a determination to be ungentlemanly. Still, those who have before acted in this way should remember that many ladies on their way home from church are kept waiting outside, while the gentlemen who accompany them are getting...
BOARD at Memorial Hall, during the last month, has been $4.30 per week. Two hundred and ninety-four men have ordered extra dishes; only two have ordered over five dollars' worth, one having run up a bill of $6.50, the other a bill...
...other hand, it is worth your while to be connected with the societies which are devoted to amusement. To be sure, as I remember them, they are not very amusing; but, at the same time, most of your friends will join them, and if you do not, you will feel as if you were out of the world, - which is not at all the same thing as feeling as if you were in heaven. In my time these societies were great political powers. When any class elections came, they would divide the various offices between themselves, and walk off with...
...hurried we shall see a repetition of the slipshod races of last year. The cups to be offered in the spring will be of a more attractive kind than those of past years, and a little energy on the part of the captains may make the races worth rowing and worth seeing...