Word: meritable
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...principal change in the Register this year--and a change of considerable merit--is to be found in the arrangement of social clubs. Instead of the previous arbitrary ranking, the arrangement is now alphabetical. The more comprehensive treatment of "Information about Clubs," though subject in one place to misinterpretation and in several others suffering from slight inaccuracies, also adds much to the value of the Register. A number of State and school clubs and other organizations, which were not mentioned in previous Registers, have this year been added. The record of athletic events is more complete than formerly...
Each speaker will be allowed five minutes and the entire speaking will be limited to two hours. Merit in impromptu debate, rather than in extensive preparation, will be recognized. Men will be marked with from one to five points, according to merit, and will be picked according to the total number of points scored at all the trials. It is therefore more important that a man should speak at each meeting than that he should prepare extensively for any one of the trials. From 12 to 15 men will be retained in all. F. B. Wagner 3L. will...
...graduates, three prizes of $200 each are offered for essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning. Any holder of an academic degree in arts, literature, philosophy or science, who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year within a period beginning not more than two years before the time when the prize is to be awarded may compete...
...graduates, three prizes of two hundred dollars each, to be substituted for the single prize of three hundred dollars offered in previous years, are offered for an essay of high literary merit in a special field of learning. For the year 1904-1905, one prize will be offered in each of the following divisions: 1. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering; 2. Biology, Geology and Anthropology; 3. Ancient Languages and Literature. Any holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year, may compete for these prizes...
...that the first number of the Advocate is not of its usual excellence; it contains, however, two poems which merit praise. "Across the Centuries" has unusual charms of melody, and "The Boy and the World" is inspiring. The third poem, "Autumn Leaves in June," is somewhat obscure...