Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwelcome pleasure, therefore, to see an amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...
...European libraries also rather partake of the nature of museums. The old manuscripts, century-old relics, are put on exhibition, like your Treasure Room on a large scale. The illustrations in these manuscripts are often valuable as works of art, aside from the literary merit of the works. We have a collection of about 200,000 medals, many of them famous historically. Our periodical department is quite extensive, and we have several newspaper reading rooms. One of these is intended principally for Americans...
Taken all in all, the present issue is more uneven in its merit than perhaps seems necessary. But at the same time praise for the issue as a whole far out-weighs any slight blame incurred by a few mediocre attempts at humour. If one feels the slightest tingle of the spring tickling the soles of one's feet or the whims of one's mind, then let him haste to make acquaintance with Lampy in his new spring jacket...
...merit of many contemporary American authors is recognised in South America and most of their works which have been translated into Spanish are very popular. The South American field, however, is rather neglected by American publishers. Your technical magazines especially are of great use to us as authorities in scientific and industrial developments...
...prose material includes two or three articles of varying length, subject, and merit; a story of considerable length on Latin America, the sea, revolution and a wop sailor with an O. Henry ending which is even less convincing than the rest of the story; and finally an essay on one of the minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions...