Word: worth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Spring practice is valuable not only because the candidates learn a great deal of football, but also because they get in touch will the coaching system. The coaches, also, learn to know the men and can estimate the worth of the available material. In the fall the coaches cannot devote their time to individual coaching; they must work to perfect a machine. In the spring, however, there are a great many coaches who spend their time watching the different candidates...
...certainly undesirable to leave fencing on its present footing, for it is not right to have any University team handicapped to such an extent. If the Committee feels that there is enough interest to make intercollegiate matches worth while, the expenses of the team should be paid in whole or in part from the general fund. It is perhaps doubtful if this step would make the sport particularly popular, but it would at least be given a fair chance for success...
...unity of the various Freshman classes. As conditions are at present, it is not until the end of his Senior year that the average undergraduate really feels that he knows the men of his class, and anything which could bring this about in the Freshman year would be well worth adoption...
...quoted humorous anecdotes in regard to the relations between instructor and instructed, by saying that the scholar's real merit was not what he had done, but what he might do, not that he had won high marks but that he had laid the foundation for things really worth while...
...President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed with. In behalf of the many men who prefer the present system in spite of its defects, we venture to disagree with the President and advocate...