Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Speaking from experience, I can say that not sixty per cent of the class write anything at all, and the most part of what is written is not worth a picayune. Now and then a man has something worth mentioning, but the average life is a very cambric-tea affair, or about as amusing reading as the directory, here and there rising to the exciting pitch of Homer's Catalogue of Ships...
...library committee has appropriated $600 to the purchase of books, to be apportioned to the different departments, each professor being allowed $50 worth. The library expends about $250 annually for periodicals. This year the income of the library is $2,000, the income from the Gilbert fund of $10,000 having now become available...
...should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth is, that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match, if made, will entail, in justice to the English club, painstaking and training for weeks, just as if for an important regatta or match...
...Forty-one dollars worth of prizes were given to the successful contestants in the athletic sports...
...prominence is given to the muscular, as compared with the intellectual, in our universities. Assuming, however, for the present, that they are wrong, and that a "stroke oar" is a more enviable man than a "summa cum laude," let us examine the question on the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well...