Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poor man, and saying, "This is all we'll give. Take it, or leave it," - and he, thinking this half-loaf better than no bread, accepts; and allows us to say with pride, "You see, men are glad to come here, even when we don't pay anything worth mentioning...
...small, because then they would have time and opportunity, though probably not encouragement (if some floating stories we have recently heard be true) to pursue their studies or scientific researches, and thus extend their fame and better their positions. But it is not to be supposed that a man worth anything will come here at any price, to be tied down year after year to such machine-work as the shovelling of facts into the sieve-form minds of a hundred and fifty ordinary boys, and the examination of eight hundred or so blue books per annum...
...expect to be admitted as amateurs at other sports after this? The Era answers that it's none of Columbia's business, and anyhow Cornell never had a postgraduate on her crew, - another delightfully conclusive answer. It may be interesting to some to see what the prizes are worth at Cornell. In the 100-yards dash the prize is $1; 220-yards, $2 ("reduction on taking a quantity"); 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile, $3; 100-yards run (backwards) which is certainly a novel event, $2; and so on, the highest award being $5, which is given for several events...
...fact, the career of P. A. Villiers is well worth making a note of by people who get their ideas of Harvard life from "Student Life at Harvard," "Hammersmith," the Boston Herald, and such veracious sources of information...
...interest, of course, centres in him. The minor parts, notably Gretchen, are not so well taken as they should be. Saturday night, Joseph Proctor as the Jibbenainosay, with Miss Annie Proctor as Tellie Doe. Monday, the Ideal Opera Company will give Gilbert and Sullivan's "Sorcerer," which is well worth hearing. Later, "The Prince of Palermo," an adaptation of Suppe's "Boccaccio," is promised by the same company...