Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pierian Sodality is now under the direction of C. L. Safford '94 who was formerly the leader of the Williams Glee Club and is now studying under Professor Paine. The club has shown a great improvement and has the additional merit of playing entirely without the help of hired musicians. Among the pieces which will be played in the concert will be an original composition by E. B. Hill '94, a selection from "Granada" by D. G. Mason '95 and a piece arranged for strings by C. L. Safford...
...exclusion of federal officers from party politics would do much to effect such a separation. (a) Parties would then be held together only by the questions of public principle. (b) Government service would be base on merit alone...
still remain and would lead ot evasion of the proposed rule, of a sort difficult to prove and punish. (2) The only practical remedy is to extend to them the merit system...
...since the plan did not meet the approval of some of the best speakers in the University, it was only partially carried out. Owing to the manner in which affairs turned then, there are two societies today, neither of which acknowledges the other as superior and on whose respective merit it would not be expected that any disinterested persons would be willing to pass judgment. If some method for coalescing all the good speakers can be found, it would assuredly be well; we simply point out that the method sugested is inadequate...
...sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm of abuse which greeted his masterpiece. It is to such works as this that future generations will turn to obtain a true picture of the commonplace American business...