Word: merit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of the Advocate is without exception the worst for several years. Not only are some of the articles without merit but several have grave faults, and the number as a whole has no redeeming features.- except its copious clippings from the Christian Union. The first editorial discusses the football question in a spirit hardly compatible with the principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought...
...place for excavating, and work was begun in 1881 by the Greek Archaeological society. The excavations were continued until 1885, and have proved to be among the most successful ever carried on in Greece. Two temples have been discovered, and one circular structure, of unknown purpose, but great architectural merit. The debris has been cleared away from the theatre, and the stage structure thus revealed has led to a revolution in our ideas as to the manner of the production of a Greek play. Many sculptures have been found of over average merit, though none of the highest. But most...
...leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have been allowed to occupy so great a portion of the Monthly's limited space...
...Tassin contributes a poem in blank verse, entitled "A Summer's Gift." It has the merit of being simple and unpretentious, and its metaphors are appropriate, though not especially original...
...fifteen dollars, to R. W. Atkinson, '91, for college song, "Sir John De Boos," words by B. A. Gould, '91; third prize, ten dollars, to L S. Thompson, '92, for college song, "The Dragon," words by S. W. Batchelder, '93. Several of the other songs were also of considerable merit...