Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Norton announced yesterday that the task of deciding which of the photographs in the Camera Club exhibition deserved the prize for artistic merit, was an impossible one. To select the best ten or twelve would, he thought, be practicable...
Among the pictures which Professor Norton recommended, each for a different merit were; "The North of the Brandywine," "Under the Willows," and "Tree on the Brandywine," by C. P. M. Rumford '97; "The Taffrey Shadows," F. H. Cummings '95; "The Poplars," by R. H. Loines Sp.; the "Impressionists," by Professor de Sumichrast; "Sun Effect through Trees," by A. F. Stevenson '95; the "Coming Storm," by C. F. Gould '98; the "Old Orchard," by A. G. Lewis '96; the "Monadnock," by F. E. Frothingham...
...composed, are developing a skill in photography which in its best results can not be surpassed by either amateur or professional work today. This artistic skill is not confined to one or two individuals, nor to one or two photographs. The number of those who exhibit sets of great merit is increasing from year to year; while the particular photographs which in the present exhibit have received prizes, have been picked out as a mere formality from a number which are all alike excellent. The inference is that the Camera Club is actually becoming an influence in developing the faculty...
...greatest prominence here. "Sheff" students are considering the advisability of establishing a chapter of Sigma Xi which was founded in November 1886 at Cornell University by Professor Henry S. Williams '68 S., now Silliman Professor of Geology at Yale, and is intended to have the same significance of scholarly merit that Phi Beta Kappa holds among classical students. Phi Beta Kappa has also adopted certain amendments to its constitution and raised its standard of membership from 3.15 to 3.20 on a scale of 4 during a course of 2 years of more, or 3.40 for a single year. The object...
...descriptions of New England funerals which are to be found several times in the stories of Mary Wilkens are masterpieces of their kind. Another feature of her writings is that sad New England love, which finds it easier to renounce than to possess. Iron strength of will is the merit and at the same time the fault of "Pembroke," for no less than six characters in this story are gifted with this quality...