Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Neither "The Wedge of Gold" nor "The Room Mates" are of particular literary merit. The first has to do with the pecuniary difficulties of a South American ranchman and senator, coupled with a bank failure. The second is only saved from being dull by the imaginative and novel style in which it is written. "In a Fog" is a lively bit of narrative. The two pieces of verse in the number are up to the usual standard of the Advocate...
...team defeated the College of the City of New York, last Saturday, by the score of 6 goals to 2, and the University of Pennsylvania has defeated the same team by the score of 3 goals to 0. It is difficult to judge from these scores of the relative merit of the Harvard and Pennsylvania teams. Last year Harvard defeated Pennsylvania by the score...
...best part of the recent number of the Lampoon is found in the short quibs, and jokes. By their originality and merit, a few of these save the number from being decidedly ordinary. The longer pieces,--particularly the editorials--are merely new treatments of very old ideas, which have appeared in the paper in one form or another for a decade or more, and appear to no great advantage in their present shape. The climatic conditions of Cambridge, the Water in the Yard, the Freshman and his Cash account, and the more recent material, the Union waiter has for some...
...Graduates' Night performance of "The Catnippers" was given at the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre on Saturday evening. The merit of the opera lies chiefly in the music and in the stage-settings. The plot is not elaborate, and the characters are little developed. On this account not many individual roles are made notable. The most prominent character and the most amusing actions are found in the Maharajah, played by W. C. Clark '03. S. Waller '03, as the Vizier, has a part which is consistently grotesque...
...existence of several of the stories which follow the editorial. The editing of the material is careless and the material itself lacks substance. "A" Kink in Criticism," is an ill disguised attempt to present in novel form a plot long ago worn threadbare, although originally it had the merit of basis in fact. "Lost and Found" is deserving of praise for its clever structure; it is the only story in which the movement of the plot cannot be anticipated at the start. "Antonio's Visit" and "Johnny Dewdrop," are thrilling and well sustained, but far removed in atmosphere from academic...