Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hard to believe that even the Faculty intends, against the expressed conviction of its able Committee on Athletics, to deny the game this right. If, however, as seems to be the case, the Faculty intends to do this injustice, it behooves undergraduates to forget for a time the worth of a chastened spirit, and, conscious of a right cause, to fight for football vigorously and without resting...
...literature relating to the thirteenth century in Italy is of enormous extent, and to master it is a study for years. Even to make a satisfactory list for a student of the works best worth his reading would be a long and difficult task...
Dante, et les origines de la Langue et de la Littreature Italiennes, par M. Fauriel, Paris, 1854, 2 vols., 8vo., was an excellent book in its time, and is still worth reading...
...Florence, the Chronicle of Giovanni Villani is of highest interest and importance. If the Chronicle of Dino Compagni were what it professes to be, a contemporary record of events, it would be of incomparable worth: and tho' it be of doubtful genuineness it is still of value...
...private challenge to a contest of strength which he sent to Lane of Amherst last Friday. Lane positively refuses to meet him in any contest whatever. Klein is willing to compete with Nash of Tufts, provided enough representatives of other colleges will come in to make the contest worth while...