Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the day's work was of no fluke origin it might be noted that the next week the University of Pittsburgh sadly humiliated Old Penn, conquerors of Yale and of a host of other football aggregations of more than passing merit...
Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...strict truth this Shubert concoction is a pretty flabby affair. This is not to deny it any merit whatever undeniably it has its moments, as for instance in the delightfully absurd Balloon dance, in the dancing of Tommy Healy and the mere appearances of Lucita Covera,--in the orchestral jazz and the far-famed "Living Palette" and "Living Statues", and in an occasional pleas- antly executed evolution of the chorus. But these bits of relief serve only to make the whole show spotty; they are by no means enough for its salvation...
...college undergraduate not infrequently considers himself competent to pass decisively on the merit of his professors. Orally he indulges in very free expressions of approval and disapproval, and no bones are broken. But when he takes to putting his views in writing, and then publishes them for all the world to read, the undergraduate critic has to be taken seriously...
...these instances there may be a tendency to sympathize with the undergraduate journalists, and to feel that possibly there is merit in the criticisms offered. But one can scarcely avoid recognizing a rather impressive inequality between faculty and students basis for opinion...