Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring concert is the one aim of the clubs all the year, no less for the sum to be given the crew than for its pleasure. Nor is the plea for "consistency" less absurd. Why interfere with a few beneficial and harmless freshman organizations, because others which have no merit to them wish to be formed? It is a poor argument to cry "consistency" in this case. Refuse the new organizations; no one will object to this inconsistency, but let us have useful and harmless organizations, there are few enough chances any way for freshmen to meet together socially...
...Boston audience. Fraulein Wohlmuth is a reader of established reputation in the great centres of culture in Europe. She is indorsed in this country by such men as Colonel Higginson, Mr. Nikisch and others, and there can be little doubt that her readings will be performances of high artistic merit. They take place at Steinert Hall on Tuesday and Friday of this week, 2.30 p. m. The tickets are $1 for each reading...
There has been a constant call for scholarships from students who well merit them, but the Society is unfortunately unable to meet this demand. Annual scholarships have been given at times by friends for certain students, but there is only one regular scholarship. With the care that is made for this aid there is an excellent chance here for some benefactor to render good service by establishing more scholarships...
...Benjamin Kimball and Mr. W. S. Briggs awarded last evening the prizes offered by the Harvard Camera Club in their exhibition. In selecting the prize pictures the judges paid most attention to artistic merit though always requiring technical excellence...
...lecture in Sanders Theatre, this evening, has certainly the merit of oddity. While being strictly neither a lecture nor a concert, it combines the two elements in a way that should make it not only instructive, but very entertaining. The concert part of the program, moreover, is of a type which has probably never before been heard in Sanders Theatre. The old instruments which Mr. Steinert has, with a great deal of care brought together, form in themselves, a collection of no little interest, while an explanation of their use with actual examples added will give to the performance this...