Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interesting show is promised by the Executive Committee for to-morrow. The Scratch Races will be rowed over the boat-house course, and, if we can judge from the number of the entries, will be well worth seeing. According to the last accounts three Freshman-sixes had entered, and several seats had been taken in the four-oared barges. It is a pity that single-scullers who have yet to win fame on the Charles are so shy in entering the Junior race. We are confident that there are men in the under classes who pulled in singles before they...
...articles: "An Ancient and Modern Battle as Typical of the Old and the New Civilization," "Humanity in Poetry," "True Partisanship," "A Criticism on the Representative Orators of the American Bar." How long will it be before the average college student finds out that he cannot write much that is worth reading on such subjects? He evidently has not found...
...have the final decision in the matter, on Saturday, Monday, or Tuesday evenings next. The registration list will close at ten o'clock Tuesday evening, the 29th, and it is of course understood that no one can vote unless his name is on the list. The matter is worth some trouble, and we hope that none will fail to present themselves before the Aldermen, if they have received a final refusal from the city clerk. The clerk, by the way, has had a consultation with Professor Thayer, of the Law School, and has lately modified some of his former decisions...
Resolved, That we sincerely mourn the loss of one who, by his manly character and his fidelity to duty, by his kindly disposition and his unassuming worth, won, in the brief time he was with us, the respect and friendship of all whose privilege it was to know...
...them take Holmes, and have the fifth of a mile track laid out immediately, so that men can begin to train at once. It should be kept in mind that prizes equal in value and beauty to those given last year will be offered this, and will be worth any man's training for. We trust that this year's Freshman class will not be as distrustful of their powers in the athletic line as their predecessors, or so backward in displaying what powers they have. A man never knows what he can do till he tries, - and here...