Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from what I have been able to learn as above stated I am led to believe that what Mr. Ammerman says of himself is true that "he takes no interest in college athletics," and also that there is no importance to be attached to his statement which is not worth the discussion it has caused...
...from playing during the remainder of the season. The plea that by so acting we shall be doing Yale's work is no plea at all. It is the principle for which we should stickle. The attitude which our team and our college has taken toward this principle is worth in reality all the victories of a season. It is our duty, therefore, to see our honest convictions victorious, and while the eleven is doing its best to win at Springfield next Saturday, the college ought to support any measure which will further fair play in college athletics...
...game remarkble both for its strength steadiness and quickness, and if they could have kept it up Princeton would surely have been beaten. It was plain, however, that the strain on the men was too great. At Princeton the men are required to play for all they are worth for two hours every day and the effect of this training told very plainly in yesterday's contest. On the other hand while Harvard's team was in some respects individually better than Princeton's, none of the men could hold out at their best play for a game so long...
...freshmen showed great improvement and blocked Ninety well. No attempts were made for goals. The teams played as follows: Ninety-Rushers: Emmons, Slocum, Darling. Fe-senden, Pulsifer; Alken, Tyson; quarter-back, Faulkner; half-backs, Henshaw and McLeod; full-back, Crane. Ninety-three-Rushers: Culiimore, Dunn, Slade, Brice, Davis, Ell worth, Chew: quarter, Kendriken; halfs, Belland Robb; full, Manning...
...points brought out in President Eliot's address to the students last evening are well worth our attention. It is indeed too often true that college men think only of what the college may do for them, and forget, or at least disregard, their own duties to the college. What we need to do here is to exercise our freedom in a manly direction. After all, it is not athletics nor even endowments and advantages which make the college-but men. Thus it is that the present and the future usefulness and worth of Harvard must be largely...