Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...power, to furnish this information. Accordingly he carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large volumes...
...summer meeting of the Athletic Association on Jarvis Field. A large number of ladies from town honored the athletes with their presence, and that portion of the seats which was reserved for them formed one of the most attractive features of the afternoon, and was a sight well worth the trouble of a much longer walk than that from the Yard to Jarvis Field...
These legends, in poetry or prose, are well worth careful reading, not only for the quaint simplicity of the style, but also for the many really noble thoughts, and the high ideas of duty and honor characteristic of a time the chief creed of which seems to have been "to drede god, and loue ryghtwiseness, feythfully and courageously to serue your souuerayne prynce...
...second article, directed against the "condition of the Physical Laboratory," makes some disparaging comparisons not worth mentioning...
...take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth in a race, and prefer to have tried men in the boat, and not to risk a race by putting in a new man. The captains of the clubs have shown their wisdom thus far in selecting for their crews several strong Freshmen, but the best of those chosen will...