Word: meritable
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...Greek and Latin. For the English dissertations two prizes are offered to undergraduates in regular standing--a first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars, and a second prize of two hundred dollars. For graduates a prize of three hundred dollars 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 mathematics or natural science...
...other prose articles and poems in the Advocate are of varied merit; "A Day in His Life," an unsigned story, is, with the exception of the class day parts, the most interesting contribution to the number. The fact that the writer deals with the traditional loafer, his repentance and regeneration, does not mar the interest of the story, for the plot is set forth and made to seem almost new by an unusually vigorous style. One feels disappointed, however, that the writer should confess himself unable to evolve a climax from an interesting and difficult situation, by stating finally that...
...poetry the "Song of the Smithy" by L. W., is one of the most charming bits of verse that has appeared for some time. It is simple in thought and lyrical in form. A sonnet entitled "To E. A. B." is another poem of considerable merit as is also a refreshing little love poem entitled, "Miranda" by R. Pier '03. "To a Motion for a Verse" by Lyon Ives has less poetry in it than the other poems; it nevertheless points an excellent moral...
...figures entitled "At the Sophomore-Freshman Game," they have a grotesque realness about them which cannot escape even the most careless observer. So much for the pictures. The rest of the number is well filled with editorials pleasantly harmless, jokes not without point, and longer articles of real merit...
...italics clamoring for attention. All danger of losing the point is in this way cleverly avoided. On the following page, too, there is a naive little aside, which informs the reader that he must not attempt to see through the appended joke. The caution seems needless, though the merit of the illustration excites false hopes...