Word: merit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class election should be determined on merit alone. It is an ideal not often attained, but it is none the less an ideal to be sought after: to cast aside personal likes and dislikes, to vote for the men who most deserve office and who are best fitted for carrying out the obligations of office, and to abide by the results without complaint...
...verse, there are two poems of merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...thesis on an approved subject, (2) of such other evidence of scholarship as may be accessible. In the award no account will be taken of the financial means of the candidates; and no award will be made in case the theses offered are not of sufficient merit...
...current Advocate is fairly saturated with football, from the editorials and the leading article down to the inevitable "he and she" version of the great game. The leading article, by Mr. W. D. Sullivan '83 of the Boston Globe, has the great merit, rare in 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...
...management has done everything in its power to fill the applications of those that merit tickets. The tickets sent out yesterday, which are for the seats in the third and fourth rows in the peristyle and the row now in the process of erection on top of the Stadium, form the final allotment. In the cases where the applications have not been filled, the money and checks will be returned after the game...