Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spend a pleasant and profitable hour with the latest number of "The Advocate." This issue has the merit of variety; it ranges from the flippant to the serious. The thoughtful editorial, prefaced by a letter from Professor Francke, discusses the evils of specialization, and suggests a remedy. The editor is to be praised for eliminating from the argument the irrelevant question of the alleged "Germanization" of Harvard. What care we whether we are imitating the Germans? For us an academic practice is good, not because it is German, but because it suits American conditions and carries out American ideals...
...hasty and careless work; and in future the effort should begin several months ahead. Those who have been unsuccessful this season should not be content with one attempt, but should begin at once to study the class of song which is required, and endeavor to produce something of real merit and enduring popularity...
...Department of State has appealed to the University to encourage graduates to enter the consular service of the government, and to lay before them the advantages and inducements of the foreign service. The introduction of the merit system by the present Administration has greatly increased the chances for promotion of one who enters one of the minor departments of the services. An evidence of this change in policy is the announcement that the vacancy which will be caused by the resignation of Mr. Charlemagne Tower '72 as Ambassador to Germany will be filled by promotion...
...graduates, three prizes of $200 each are offered for essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning. For 1907-08 these fields will comprise modern language, literature, history, political science, philosophy, education, and the fine arts. Any holder of academic degree in arts, literature, philosophy, or science, who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year within a period beginning not more than two years before the time when the prize is to be awarded, may compete...
...award will be made on the basis of the thesis and of such other evidences of scholarship as may be obtainable. No account will be taken of the financial means of the competitor, and no award will be made in case the theses offered are not of sufficient merit...