Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Caswell of New York, a Yale graduate of 1866, has proposed to subscribe $100 towards a challenge cup to be competed for by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. He hopes to raise $100 among the graduates of each of the other colleges, thus offering for competition a cup worth $400. The conditions governing these annual contests will not be decided upon until after the money has been actually subscribed, and the graduates have been assured that all four colleges will take a genuine interest in the affair. So the scheme is still in embryo, but Mr. Caswell is working...
...scientific exponents; for the most part men have taken their exercise as they pleased. The new step in the Lawrence Scientific School, however, recognizes the fact that physical training demands more scientific instructors, and that it has grown to be so important that it is worth a man's while to give himself up to teaching that kind of work. And that is the very object of this course; it is to fit men to look at physical culture as a science worth studying, and as an art worth practising. The result cannot but be beneficial to athletics of every...
Harvard had a chance to show what her rushing was worth. There was little interference by the forwards and Corbett and Lake went for the line in vain. Trafford kicked, McClung caught it in the middle of the field and Yale invaded Harvard's territory again. They got it up to the 30 yards line, but there Wallis held Waters and the umpire awarded the ball to Harvard...
...current issue of Harper's Weekly a Harvard graduate makes some suggestions for improving the game of foot ball which are worth more than passing attention. Some of these suggestions commend themselves at once to any lover of the game; others are radical, would necessarily greatly affect the character of the game, and can be discussed intelligently only by men who have had long experience as players and by careful students of the game. One of the latter class is the suggestion to separate the rush lines by a space of three or four feet at every scrimmage. As explained...
...fifth number, the overture "Euryanthe," by Weber, seemed rather below the rest of the programme, if not in point of musical worth, at least in popularity. The enthusiasm flagged at this piece, but the concert which it ended was undeniably one of the best yet given in Cambridge...