Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sports today. The Amateur Athletic Union, on the contrary, embraces the best athletes all over the country, and their presence will go far toward making the games more successful than the B. A. A. contests. Moreover all the events are scratch, and each man will go strictly according to merit. The hall itself has been greatly enlarged, and the track has been proportionately lengthened so that only seven and one-half laps are now required for the mile. It has been raised at the corners so as to prevent all danger of slipping, and the runners will be arranged...
...gave the play "Ben-My-Chree." The play itself is of a higher order than are the usual melodramas, but there are a number of striking and discordant inconsistencies in it. Mr. Wilson Barrett's acting was more than excellent, and Mr. George Barrett showed a good deal of merit. Miss Eastlake had some force but rather overacted her part. On the whole the play is well worth seeing...
...third week of "All the Comforts of Home" at the Museum will probably be as successful as the other two have been. Gillette's plays always possess some merit, and the Museum company is an excellent...
...opening story, "Hic Jacet Sepultus," is an unfortunate production in every respect. It is conspicuous by its sensational style and slovenly English, which includes a wearisome use of the historical present and such expressions as "inscrutable weariness." The plot has certainly the merit of extreme originality, but is nevertheless decidedly unpleasant, and an unhealthy, toue pervades the whole story, the presence of which in a college periodical, is to be regretted. The author makes mistakes in the gender of his Latin principle and in his use of m'amie for mon ami and mon amie...
...Eben Williams and the "schoolmarm." The scene of the latter is laid in Iceland. It is written in the old English style, which the author has been particularly happy in catching. The description of the combat is rather improbable, but the story as a whole has great literary merit...