Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...closely to their bases, taking little lead when the ball was pitched. Amherst ran bases much better. The fielding was not particularly good on either sides, though Harvard excelled. Foster caught some beautiful flies in centre field, and Tilden and Winslow played their positions for all they were worth. The infield also did well. Allen's hands were puffed and swollen, but he pluckily caught throughout the game, though Nichols was at times obliged to favor...
...considerable item in the case of the clay courts, would not the constant player be given some advantage over the man who plays perhaps half a dozen times a year? In the base-ball games a man can buy his ticket at the gate or, if he thinks it worth his while, he can purchase a season ticket which admits him to all the games at reduced prices...
...good college paper is worth more for the moral and gentlemanly tone of college life than a whole library of bylaws and an army of faculty spies.- N. Y. Independent...
...practical, and therefore very forcible way. The monopoly value that some of these pamphlets get in the hands of our very respectable, as well as very mercenary Cambridge stationers, is nothing short of being mirabile dictu. By magic, like the transformations in a fairy-tale, a few printed sheets, worth (with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat of the seller...
...draw out a large audience; and we believe that all who can, should attend, although it be only to see and "hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth attention and consideration, although they may not always receive unrestricted approbation. Moreover, it is a novelty to have a woman speaking in Sanders Theatre. Mrs. Livermore, we believe, is to be the first woman who has ever spoken there, nay, even the first who has ever thus publicly addressed a Harvard...