Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Besides the honor of being on the second nine, there are some advantages worth mentioning. From it, of course, the substitutes for the university nine will be taken. The best batter in it will receive a prize, as we mentioned some time ago, which has been offered by the base-ball association. This will be of no little value and well worth working for. Moreover, class nines are to be organized this spring to contest for a class championship and a pennant. Men who come forward now and try for the second university nine, will be in good trim...
...usual round of college lectures and readings is to be varied by a series of historical concerts, to be given by Prof. Paine, in Sever 11. The name of Prof. Paine is of itself a sufficient guarantee that these concerts will be of a high order, and well worth attending. Illustrating the progress and historical aspect of music by means of concerts, is something quite novel, at least in Cambridge, and cannot fail to draw a considerable audience from the lovers of the art, both those in college, and the many cultivated people who make up a large part...
...work. But not yet. What good are introductions? Snodkins listens to them attentively, that is, he has his eyes firmly fixed on the lecturer, a scrutiny which he keeps up for fully twenty minutes. At last, however, a point has been made that to Snodkins' mind is really worth taking down. Slowly the note-book is placed open on the table, a pencil is drawn out, and work is begun. I watch my friend closely; he works slowly, but deliberately, and soon, raising myself a little, I see, not a page of carefully written notes, but a wonderfully life-like...
...Phillipian has made the discovery that "There is a Boston ring at Harvard as there is a Philadelphia ring at Princeton. While the class is still in a molten condition, before the true worth and sentiment are recognized, these bands of real or pseudo friends working together, control the class. Many instances of this have been lately seen...
...professor upon the Yale Faculty is stated to be worth a million dollars...