Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...responsible position, and owes it to his class to play in his very best form. Then, eighty-nine, when you face your adversaries of the 19th, remember three things, keep cool, be confident, but not over-confident, and play each man of you for all you are worth. And may success attend your efforts...
...pleased with the changes which have been made within the last year or two in the department of Physics. This study which once was looked upon by the average student as simply a maze of calculus and logarithms, has been brought to a position where its real worth as part of a complete education is beginning to be appreciated. Abstruse mathematics are no more necessary to a thorough grounding in physics than they are to a knowledge of history. That this is indeed true can be seen from the work in what is comparatively a new departure in our Physics...
...Advocate has made a timely suggestion which we would heartily second. Some means should be taken at once to do away with the present abominable "shack" system. It is as much as one's life is worth to try to escape from the army of small fiends who besiege the expectant tennis-player with cries of "Shack, mister," or "Say, mister, I'll shack yer fur fi' cents." Indeed, it it almost impossible to play on crowded Jarvis without "shacks" to watch the balls. It is admitted by one and all that this system is a very obnoxious...
Miss Collins then spoke in her own character as one who had lived long among Indians and knew them as a race worth working...
This contribution, by far the ablest in the number, is well worth more than one perusal...