Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which attended Mr. Black's first lecture on Shakespeare, augurs well for a crowded audience this evening. Last week, the very large audience was drawn to Sever 11, both by an interest in the lecturer himself, and by the expectation of hearing a lecture of something more than ordinary merit. It is safe to say that Mr. Black came up to all expectations. His address showed a depth of learning and interest which could only have been the result of years of minute study. Since there were so many people who went to hear Mr. Black as a stranger...
...distinction to be made in the case of the class day officers is a good one. The men have been elected by the class to their offices in recognition of some particular merit, and such marks of honor should have some recognizable feature on Class Day. The red tassel seems in an unostentatious way to provide just this badge of honor...
...studying in the Law School- This same thing, we believe, happened last year also; two of the three elected were from other colleges. From this little circumstance no very startling generalities should be drawn, but it does show that in the last two years in the Law School merit in men from other colleges has been recognized and that "outsiders" have been put on the same level with Harvard men. The spirit shown is an admirable one, and goes far to disprove whatever ideas there may be floating around the world to the effect that Harvard is inordinately exclusive...
...athletics of the present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics a trial of skill and merit unattended by needless risk, that Harvard made her propositions; and it is gratifying to perceive the predominance of this spirit in the other colleges as shown by the way in which they joined with Harvard in the reform. We are rather at a loss to understand Yale's stand...
...Monthly. The paper is intended to foster the interests of the school and to afford a medium for the publication of literary work done by the students. In order to ensure the personal interest of as many men as possible, a board of contributors chosen on consideration of literary merit, has been created and from this broad all vacancies in regular editorships will be filled. The Mirror will be published on the first of October, November, December, February, March, May and June...