Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best memoir presented a prize of $60 may be awarded; if, however, the memoir be one of marked merit, the amount may be increased to $100 at the discretion of the committee. For the next best memoir a prize not exceeding $50 may be awarded. Prizes will not be awarded unless the memoirs presented are of adequate merit...
...Freshman rowing squad has held daily practice on the machines, under the direction of the three coaches, Wray, Rice, and Stevenson. The work has been of a very light and preliminary nature, in order to sort out the men, and form a first squad, which will be founded on merit and not on previous experience. All the men have reported regularly, and it is probable that the first shift will be made early next week...
...distinguished pupils, and a composer himself of serious purpose and high attainment,--the leader in fact of a band of French composers who are breaking away from the dominion of the Theatre, which has always been so potent in French music, and are writing symphonies, quartets, etc., of great merit...
...made on the basis of the thesis and of such other evidence of scholarship as may be accessible. In making the award no account will be taken of the financial means of the competitors; and no award will be made in case the theses offered are not of sufficient merit...
...teacher in Cambridge, Elijah Corlet. This is a broadside sheet on which is printed "An Elegiack Verse on the Death of the Pious and Profound Rhetorician and Grammarian, Mr. Elijah Corlet, School Master in Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. February 24, 1687." The lines, which have small poetical merit, were written by Nehemiah Walter, a graduate of the College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate. He afterwards became a minister, and was ordained in Roxbury as the colleague...