Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brown team, whenever it had the ball, usually chose to punt without attempting to advance by rushes. The old fault of fumbling appeared again in exaggerated form, and often with serious results. There was seemingly an increased desire to help the runner, but this good quality lacked the merit of regularity,-as sometimes the man with the ball was thrown for a loss for want of careful or effective interference. Plays were also frequently betrayed by men starting before the ball was passed; new signals had to be given and the progress of the game was retarded. The line showed...
...usual, a first and second prize are offered to undergraduates in regular standing for dissertations in English. For graduates, a prize is offered "for an essay of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning." Undergraduates may write on any subject approved by the chairman of the committee on Bowdoin Prizes. Graduates must choose a subject in ancient and modern languages, literature, or the fine arts. A prize is offered both to graduates and undergraduates for translations into Greek and Latin of passages to be announced later...
...Rose: a Phase of Harvard Life," by Shirley Everton Johnson '95. By the device of an imagined undergraduate society of pseudo-literary tastes the author is enabled to introduce several verses and tales, the relation of which to college surroundings is slight, and which are possessed of no striking merit. Of his own book he says in his preface: "No Harvard man will take this book seriously. It deals solely with the doings of a few extremists." The reader is likely to agree with him. In making this statement he has deserved better of the University than some fellow-authors...
...abused retaining wall. It seems a little uncharitable thus to abuse a work still unfinished, and to suggest as improvements features which we have been led to suppose were part of the original plan. The other classified contributions include two book reviews and three "Kodaks," including one of much merit...
...real issue, analysis of the whole question and construction of a consistent case the Princeton speakers were clearly superior to their opponents. Harvard's only pretence of an alternative course to strict enforcement was a defense of Mayor Low's administration on the ground of general expediency. An especial merit of Princeton's argument at the outset was a sharp interpretation of the question as one of principle and not of expediency--that a law is a law and is put upon the statute to be enforced--that consequently the main issue was Mayor Low's subjective attitude...