Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prophetic literature that it can be read after the event quite as well as before. It explains, simply and clearly, the situations which had to be met this fall by the coaches at New Haven and at Cambridge, and the methods followed in building up the two teams. Worth reading before the game, by reason of the light it throws on the present position of the elevens, it should be equally valuable after the outcome is decided, as a clear statement of the two methods of preparation. Of the two editorials, both dealing with football, the first says nothing...
...persistency, which is needed to develop a good football team, is also needed to make useful men. The spirit of Harvard, which alone will give a team the vigor and the support that will make it victorious, rests in the desire of each individual to do something that is worth while with all his power and all his enthusiasm...
...relic and type of our ancestors' worth...
...ashamed to chronicle such figures in connection with class football. It is, or should be, the most popular of the minor sports at this season. This year especially, with an unusually long series of games to provide competition, there is opportunity for the best men to show their worth and for the development of team play...
...report shows that the Co-operative makes an average of about 20 cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution...