Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fellowships and scholarships, the preference is given to applicants who have already been in the college, Scientific or Graduate School, for at least one year. However, a number of the minor appointments were bestowed upon persons not connected with the University but who presented testimonials to their unusual merit. The Graduate School, therefore, offers to capable and ambitious students the means of continuing their studies, practically, as long as their industry makes them deserving, and it places the appointment to a fellowship or scholarship clearly in the light of a privilege justly earned rather than in that of a gratuity...
...thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places can therefore be said to have the merit of accuracy at least. Chapter 12, on the "Character of Jane Austen Shown in Her Writings," will be of particular interest to students in English 9. In this chapter the author has given at some length his own conception of Miss Austen,-which might be summed up in a few lines...
...translation is in prose and any discussion upon its merit involves the question of metrical form versus prose as a medium of translation...
...Minton's oration was most favorably received and showed considerable merit. His subject, "American Civilization of the Future," was treated in a clear and concise manner, and showed much good thought...
...again the well known fact that the standard of literature today is not high, that the publications of such books as "Mr. Barnes of New York" and "She" are more eagerly awaited than novels of a higher order. Yet with all this mess of literary work, true literary merit, he thinks, is not hidden...