Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Graduate Manager's reports for the last three years, is less than $5,600 a year. The only redeeming feature commonly claimed for the subscription system is that it affords a way of trying out managers on the competitive plan; but in reality this has been not a merit, but a defect of the system, for it is well known that the appointment of the candidate who got the most money has not been the inviolable rule. In 1900-01 the Graduate Manager himself proposed the abandonment of the subscription plan. He said: "At present, the University Crew and track...
...music, written by A. T. Davison '06, F. H. Grey '06, and H. R. Pratt '06, is of especial merit, being varied from the spirited opening choruses to the light individual songs. These songs naturally follow the development of the plot and are tuneful and catchy, especially "Lucretia," "Marjorie Dale," "The Wedding of the Widow and the Jew," and the spinning song. The fault in several of the other songs was the indistinct enunciation of the words...
...single attempt at verse is an effort to translate Goethe, too serious a task for the undergraduate at best, and in this case, although courageous and not without merit, unsuccessful...
...Toppan prize of one hundred and fifty dollars is offered annually for the best essay of sufficient merit on a subject in political science. This prize is open for competition to students in the Graduate School or of any of the Professional Schools who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years' standing...
...Edmund Reardon made a few remarks on the work of the League's executive committee, and Mr. Richard H. Dana '74, spoke on the desirability and the possibility of extending the merit system...