Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literary part of the number is made up of several short stories of fair merit. The first is a sketch of backwoods life called "The Captain of the Rocket." Some of the descriptive parts are well written but the style of the piece as a whole is a little crude. "Number 749" a matrimonial bureau story, is well written, but would hardly pass as realistic. "Henry Dunster" invests that historic old character with sentiments which do not ordinarily do him credit. "Tom's Story" is effectively told...
...influence, then he is to be censured for carelessness in compiling and arranging his figures. Taking it for granted that these figures are correct, is found that the correspondent's conclusions are both illogical and inaccurate. But on the contrary even his original figures, do not possess this one merit of accuracy, and therefore his conclusions are totally wrong. It seems, however, as if it were impossible to look on this more charitable view of the case, and that the correspondent took his position not merely from premises deduced from his inaccurate figures, but from a real desire to prove...
...Roosevelt of the Civil Service commission contributes a paper on the "Merit System versus the Patronage System" in which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming...
...your own course, and at such a time during the week of races as would be most convenient to you. Heretofore you have not found it at all trying to row two races in one week, and Cornell, by defeating Pennsylvania so decisively last year, would seem to merit as much consideration as has been shown to Pennsylvania in the past...
...been grouped and published in a little volume entitled "Asolando" in memory of the charm of his Italian days. While Mr. Browning's death has of course stimulated the public interest in his work, the little group of poems before us will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece...