Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Discipline will come in due course, but every man who thinks it worth while to drill at all and prepare for a time when the country may need his services, should come out regularly, and we would urge all those who are considering the possibility of joining the squads, to do so at once. The sooner each individual makes an actual business of his daily drill, the sooner can permanent companies be formed, and a Harvard battalion organized on a true army basis...
...crews, an acurate estimate of their worth is difficult to give, for all their practicing heretofore has been done on the inlet, yesterday being the first day a crew has been out on the lake, where a man's form and endurance can be tested to the full. Mr. Courtney has devoted the most of his attention to the freshmen. There is an abundance of good material among the twenty candidates left. They are rowing exceedingly well and unless all signs fail, the 1901 crew will be fully as strong as any of its predecessors...
...this which justify athletics, and which explain the honorable position in the college world which is accorded to some athletic leaders. To strain to the utmost every muscle, to tax every mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches...
Every member of a class crew has a chance to show what he is worth. The CRIMSON hopes that Mr. Lehmann's choice of the best eight men may prove a difficult...
...Rise of Chesser," by C. S. Harper 1901, is the only real story of the number and is well worth reading. It tells of a young lawyer in New York who marries a silly pink-shirted type-writer before he comes to be the great Chesser and is sorry that he has done so afterwards. The other sketches are "Through the Storm" by J. A. Macy '99, a timely "Recollection of a Sea Fight" by G. D. Marvin '99, and "Blessed are the Poor" by A. G. Fuller 1900. This last tells prettily of a poor man's proposal...