Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question of entering a crew will be carefully considered next year after the experiment has been tried for the first time. We should not desire to see anything interfere with the annual race with Yale, but if a crew could be entered without doing this it might be worth while. Although Harvard and Yale send no crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management...
Having seen the worth of these honours, let us examine their effect upon the students, who may be divided into three classes. The first, those who already get Commencement parts or Final Honours, will have less instigation, for the worth of a part will certainly be greatly diminished. Those who now do not stand well at all in any subject will not be much affected by "honourable mention"; if desire for knowledge, a position on the rank-list, etc., will not lead a man to study at all, it is not likely that the prospect of being "mentioned" will spur...
...keep their boots clean, so that there will be no chance for dissatisfaction if they are not blacked; that nothing but milk and water be kept in rooms; and if anything is stolen, it will be because the students have been careless enough to have in their possession anything worth stealing...
This is very Eastern, but purely figurative. Very few of this tribe have beards. A small mustache, not large enough to singe worth speaking of, is about...
...three essays, Mr. Patten's was by far the most satisfactory and best worth its reward...