Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...healed during the summer recess, and must awaken in the hearts of everyone who claims to possess any love for Harvard, serious thoughts as to the reason for our continued discomfiture. It is true, indeed, that athletics are not the main purpose of college life, but nevertheless, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and therefore, it shows a lamentable lack of determination and perseverance when the largest university of the country, with greater conveniences for athletic practice, succumbs as a matter of course to colleges which have neither its size nor its advantages. Defeat is always...
...accepted and refused by the college papers, refused and accepted by the magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair...
This agreement was thought to be advantageous to the boat club because it secured for it at cost a pair oar, of which it then stood in need, a test of these inventions of Mr. Fearon, which several graduates prominent in boating matters had recommended as well worth a trial and if they proved to be of value, the sole use of them for one year...
That consolidated nine is quite a scheme. It is well worth considering for next year, even if it amounts to nothing this year...
...play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come in; at least we may neglect such slight differences as may arise from local peculiarities of atmospheric density. It would be perhaps worth inquiring how far the effectiveness of a pitcher's curving would be affected by the barometric pressure. Imagine the captain of a base-ball team warning the nine before play began that they must allow a little more than usual for X's curves because the barometer is unusually high...