Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...definition in words of theoretical explanation would be less intelligible than a simple analysis of that organization which has proved itself the best adapted to successful football in the past twenty years. There is one element in the Harvard organization in effect this year which has already proved its worth. For the first time since we can remember the Freshman team has been included as one of the units in the football organization and there has been constant communication, including actual coaching as well as tactical advice, between the University team's coaches and the Freshman coaches. This...
...team after being badly beaten a week or two ago by the Technology runners, but Shrubb has proved his efficiency as a coach of long distance runners by turning out a team to defeat Yale, and interest in cross-country running will benefit by it. Things that are worth doing at all are worth doing well and if Harvard is to have a cross-country team, every effort, consistent with a conservative athletic policy, should be made to put that enterprise on a substantial and successful basis. It is the height of folly to attempt to meet opponents...
...scattered far reaching. This year many charitable institutions have found themselves destitute of funds which heretofore they have been able to rely on and so are unable to supply many of the urgent demands of poverty. It requires no great sacrifice to discard old clothes, and it is well worth the effort to have them ready for the collectors and thereby feel that they will fall into deserving hands...
...rather than of disparagement and worry. He has had a hard lot who must be continually sermonizing on what ought to be done and what has been done that shouldn't have been done, so when the chance is offered to look on the other side it is well worth taking. A large crowd should hear Professor James today and we hope there will be a goodly number of undergraduates...
...value of a postal savings bank was shown during the recent panic, when foreigners bought $8,000,000 worth of money orders drawn to themselves, rather than trust to the banks. All European countries have adopted this system, so that the ignorant foreigner, accustomed to have the security of the government at home, is totally at a loss in this country. As a result he sends his money home, to Europe. This loss could easily be stopped by the establishment of these postal savings banks. The farmer, who hoards his savings, would also entrust them to a safe and convenient...