Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...indifferent. Now we have no fault to find with the present instructor, for he does all that anybody in his position could do, but we wish to call the attention of the Faculty to this matter, and ask them whether they do not think it would be worth while to have an instructor for forensics alone, instead of giving them to a professor who has plenty to do without them? Do they think it enough to require a certain number of forensics to be written, without having any correction made in them after they are written? It seems...
...victorious four-oared crew will hold another cup. We mention eights and fours as the most advisable form of races, and would suggest that the third race be open to singles. This seems such an excellent project, and the costly cups are prizes so well worth rowing for, that we trust the H. U. B. C. will lend their cooperation, as we have no doubt they will, and further as far as possible the undertaking...
...George became more popular instead of less so. This is in dead opposition to all the authorities on the subject, I know; the bad men who have a brilliant success at first always ought to fall after a year or two, but George's popularity did n't wane worth a cent. He was elected President of lots of societies, and was looked up to with adoration...
...game if they have not been faithful in their practice-work before the match. There are a great many details in passing, and tricks in dodging, which the Princeton men have mastered, and which we trust our men have now learned. The match to-morrow will be well worth seeing; and we can only hope that the experience of last week will make our men determined and watchful, and not discouraged...
...students are less privileged in the matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire was general among the students. Holyoke and Matthews already have janitors whose duty it is to light the entries, and there is no reason why the late mail should...