Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...current number of the Advocate is unusually varied in matter, but the variety is unfortunately not indicative of excellence. The story, "A Village Iconoclast," by F. E. Greene '07, can claim as its only merit the sympathetic character drawing of the spinsters. This, however, is a quality rare in undergraduate writing, and very pleasant to find. The complete lack of it in "The Two Shippers" by H. V. Morgan '10, combined with an impossible plot, puts the story in the class of the unintentional burlesque. One is glad that the two college types suggested in the number are at least...
...about ten years since the last Freshman debate with Yale was held--the last of a series of five or six joint debates. They were discontinued then largely because they were not of sufficient merit to justify their existence. The speakers were inadequately coached and did not reflect the Harvard method of debating, but rather that in vogue at their preparatory schools...
Tomorrow evening Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, the well-known author and artist, will give "A Rambling Talk" in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith is noted for his versatility; for besides being an author and artist of considerable merit, he has been engaged in engineering and contracting for about twenty years, and has built the Race Rock lighthouse on Long Island Sound and the Block Island breakwater...
...best way to make an ideal police force in New York City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...Dana Swan, former instructor in Architecture, in the Exhibition Room of Robinson Hall. The work consists of about 50 pencil sketches from scenes in New England and aboard, and a few architectural designs. The sketches, although simple and done only in pencil, show a very high degree of artistic merit, as do the architectural designs...