Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic team. There is no other penalty attached to the offence, but surely no Harvard man would choose so to disgrace himself in the eyes of the college as to do anything which might make him feel the weight of this rule; a summer's pleasure would not be worth such a price...
...they go forth into the world outside the college gates. Do not believe, do not dare to believe, that these few years have in their quick passage told you their whole story or opened to you all their heart. It is not possible. They would not have been worth living if they had. They have perhaps seemed to complicate life and to divide life and to make life shallow. Be sure that is not their final power. The simplicity of life, the unity of life, the mysterious depth of life-these college years have not done their full work...
Mona Caird writes of the "Emancipation of Family" in a sort of big bowwow style, resulting in very little of worth to the question. "Criminal Politics," by the editor of the Evening Post, is daringly outspoken-a broom to raise much dust. The Tariff Discussion is continued by Major McKinley, and Felix L. Oswald is among the contributors to the "Notes and Comments...
Will you allow me to express my regret at the action of the mass meeting on Tuesday night? Such vacillation proves how little public opinion at Harvard is worth. As matters now stand the undergraduates say to any rowdy or ldiot who may happen to think that daubing red paint is funny: "Have your joke if you must; we will pass resolutions of indignation-but don't let those frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When...
...errors which cost her the game. Soule did not play, and Dean took his place at short-stop, Frothingham, '93, covering second base. Dean played his position finely, and Frothingham did all that was required of him, although he did not have a chance to show what he was worth. Alward played a steady game and batted well. Bates was in the box for Harvard the first three innings. He threw an easy ball, but the visitors did not hit him hard. He was a trifle wild in the third inning and Newark took advantage of the circumstance and made...