Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half mile will be a race worth going a long distance to see, and the record may be broken in this event. Kilpatrick of Union won last year, and has shown great improvement since. The chances are that he will beat Hollister of Harvard, but the latter ran a wonderfully fast race in the Harvard-Yale games and has almost as good a chance to win as Kilpatrick. Orton of Pennsylvania is likely to take third place...
...annual spring concert of the various musical clubs this evening will be well worth hearing. Of late years all the clubs have set a very high standard for amateurs, and there is every reason to believe that the present performance will be the equal of those that have preceded it. Few interests of the undergraduates are better worth keeping up than the musical, and there is no surer way of encouraging them than by some show of appreciation of the work the clubs have done. The concerts in Sanders Theatre are the only occasions on which all the clubs appear...
...those who knew him loved him and knowing his worth realize how great the loss must be to you his parents. His death came as a great shock to many of us, making us feel even more keenly...
...been definitely decided that there will be no more class baseball this year. The idea of a triple league between the three upper classes has been given up owing to its impractibility. The players of the three upper class nines do not think it worth while to give their time and trouble to come out and play in such a league for even if there were such a series, with the freshmen debarred from playing, there could be no real class champions...
BEGINNING next Monday, Stephanson & Cellier's comedy opera, "Dorothy," will be produced for one week at the Castle Square Theatre. This opera is a comparative stranger to theatre-goers, and its story is worth retelling. Dorothy, the daughter of a wealthy foxhunting squire, dons peasant dress and at the village inn serves the landlord's customers, and falls in love with a gentleman whose horse has lost a shoe. Dorothy is accompanied by a friend, who masquerades with her, and also falls in love with a customer. The two girls give their lovers two rings, which the lovers swear never...