Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...afternoon at New Haven the Yale football team defeated Tufts by the score of 17 to 0 in the third game of the season for Yale. The game was well played throughout, the Yale goal at no time being in danger. The features were a long forward pass by Merit and a 20-Yard run by Tommers, who, however, fumbled the ball on the 20-yard line. Kilpatrick was on the field in uniform but as Yale had no difficulty on the defense, he did not play...
...three magazines have followed their standards with admirable consistency. They have published volume after volume, and have given no end of practice to numerous writers. Much work of merit, much that bears the marks of genius, has appeared in this mass. But the good is lost, irretrievably buried in the accumulation of the bad or merely indifferent. But there is in the three magazines enough good material to fill one magazine that would fulfill the second ideal of which we spoke,--the ideal which would best perpetuate the literary traditions of this place...
...formed in a procession and marched to Sanders Theatre. President Lowell presided, and after the singing of "America," introduced Mr. J. F. Moors '83, who delivered the Memorial address. He spoke of civic reform, especially in Boston, and of the growing sentiment of the people in favor of the merit system instead of the spoils system. After the speech, "Fair Harvard" was sung in closing...
...overpowered by the tradition. That the gentlemanly instinct at Harvard dies hard is shown by the half-hearted and inefficient manner in which our illegitimate cheering is conducted--as if those who lead it knew better, but not quite enough better to abstain. It has therefore not even the merit of whole-souled barbarity...
...present number of the Advocate has, first of all, the great and none too common merit of being worth reading. Whether it is worth preserving I am not so sure; but the articles on matters of immediate interest to Harvard men, of which the number is almost wholly made up, are certainly just now very much worth while. They express and stimulate ideas, and this statement is high praise. Dean Castle's answer to Mr. Lippmann's objections to the Freshman dormitory scheme is exactly what we have long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted...