Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exception of one or two articles, the contents of the March Monthly make interesting reading. The prominence and persistency of essays on French and French plays and French lectures somewhat palls on one, and might be decidedly tiresome, were not at least one of these articles of exceptional merit. This one is "The Plays of M. Maurice Maeterlinck," by H. S. Pollard--an essay written in such a lucid style and marked by such a clear and sympathetic understanding of the subject as to be equally pleasant and valuable. "The Misdirected Vengeance of Bucknell," by S. A. Welldon...
...massing of evidence, skilful use of persuasion and readiness in rebuttal the debate was one of exceptional merit. In general the form of the speakers was passably good, though there were individual instances of awkward gesturing and clumsy postures. The whole discussion turned on the question of the possibility of enforcing the excise law. By the affirmative it was maintained that Major Low was bound to enforce these laws legally and morally and by every consideration of expedience. That while there were certain dead laws on the statutes which could be ignored, the excise laws commanded immediate enforcement and that...
...February number of the Monthly contains unusually little of interest or merit. "Academic Truth," the reprint of a speech delivered in Sanders Theatre by Francis Cabot Lowell, and an essay on "Stephen Phillips and His Work," by O. J. Campbell, are the only articles worth careful reading. "A Winter Ode," by H. W. Holmes, has no little beauty of description. But the Monthly has seldom--if ever--given twenty pages of space to a weaker effort than "The Tower of Silence; a Play," or published a poem more out-of-place than the doggerel verses, "On a Certain Retaining Wall...
...Randall Room, Brooks House, between March 6 and 9. Only members of the club may exhibit photographs, and each member is limited to 25 pictures. A gold medal will be given for first prize, a silver medal for second prize, and honorable mentions for all pictures showing merit. The judges will be three men prominent in the art of photography...
...Camera Club has made arrangements to hold a photograph exhibition in the middle of February. The two best pictures will be awarded medals, and all others that show merit will receive honorable mention. The pictures will be confined to no one subject...