Word: merit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Adler has frequently been charged with harboring socialistic ideas, but those who hear him or read his works can only admire the sort of socialism which he advocates. Professor Adler's work is, however, by nomeans limited to theorizing and lecturing. His great merit is the practical system of charities and education of the poorer classes which he has established and successfully built up. Chicago, Philadelphia and numerous other cities have now Ethical Culture Societies which are vying with the New York society in the work they do. No man in America, it is safe to say, is more...
...enrollment of over two thousand students. The Price Greenleaf bequest to the college appropriates $12.000 annually to be distributed in scholarships ranging in sums from $150 to $250 a year; and unlike the ordinary college scholarships, will be given not only to students who have already proved their merit in the college, but also to freshmen, or persons who have been admitted to advanced standing either with or without examination. Owing to the increased amount of material essential to a fully detailed report of all the affairs connected with the University, the present catalogue is considerably larger than that...
...Lewis' "Vacation Song" is a composition of merit and we do not think the Glee Club did as well as they might...
...always remained a training school for pastors and teachers. It has always recruited its professors chiefly from the tutorial ranks. Its record of academic service affords striking evidence in favor of professorial appointments upon the basis of successful experience as subordinate teachers. While promotion for genius or exceptional merit must always be admitted in any good administration, even at the expense of seniority and faithful service, yet, on the whole, the history of Harvard and of most American college faculties, is a history of the gradual advancement of tutors by a system of collegiate service, is to universities what...
...Briggs, and later the "double pages" of Purdon, showed vast improvement over the work of the early artists. The work of Mr. Stewart was undoubtedly the finest that ever appeared in the Lampoon, and it is probable that a good many years will pass before work of equal merit will appear in the paper...