Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very long literary criticisms-Mrs. Wharton, by H. L. Warner '03; Miss Fiona Macleod and the Celtic Movement, by L. Ward '03; Hermann Suderman, by Ernest Bernbaum '03, and Onota Watanns, unsigned. All of them are carefully written, show appreciative method and skill, but except for their actual literary merit, are not particularly interesting reading. The last named is perhaps the most pleasing. It is comparatively brief, tells something that is good to know, in a manner, pleasant and graceful-and above all is not burdened with rhetorical self consciousness, but is sound without being needlessly pretentious...
...challenged Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Columbia to an intercollegiate photographic contest to take place some time during February or March. Each college will submit about fifty pictures which will be judged by a competent committee and the award will be made to the college whose work shows the most merit. First and second prizes will also be given, as well as honorable mention to individual pictures...
...verse, "The Lost Glade," by R. W. R., is melodious and delicate in phrasing. "Josua's Philosophy," a New England dialect-verse is rather too rough even for dialect. "The Concord Turnpike," Allan Tierney, has at least the merit of not going far afield for its subject...
...cover and centre-page drawings are what one is apt to look at first in the Lampoon, and instinctively to hold as the criterion of merit in judging the number as a whole. In the Yale game issue the cover drawing is a good illustration of a clever and pertinent idea, while the centre page drawing, though in part rather careless and crude in technique, is effective as a whole and symbolizes well what everyone is thinking today--"Who will win?" The first editorial is unusually good, and the second, more serious in tone than the ordinary Lampoon editorial...
...Bowdoin Prizes. Theses forming a part of the regular work of courses may be offered, with the consent of the instructor, or, subject to such consent, may be written for the prize competition. For graduates a prize of three hundred dollars is offered for an essay of high literary merit, on a subject within the range of ancient and modern languages, literature and the fine arts. This essay must be written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year within the period...