Word: merite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winning essay, made public this morning for the first time, contains little that is new. Its chief merit is the apt summary of Mr. Delcevare King's views. "The willingness with which obedience responds to enforcement is the acid test of true democracy," says Mr. Bisbee, in the course of his arguments to prove that the lawless should be abhorred as a "Scofflaw...
...plan to raise the 25th anniversary gift of the Class of 1924 by means of endowment insurance appears to be an exceedingly good one, from every point of view. Among its other advantages, it has the merit of distributing the burdon--of allowing every member of the class to assist in raising the fund to assist very materially, yet without great financial strain at any time. A class fund composed of large contributions from a few wealthy men may be just as useful as a fund which represents substantial gifts from every member, but it is certainly not as democratic...
...evidence of self-reliant, independent thinking the book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...Immigration Law is a universal target for abuse on account of the hardships which, in particular cases, it imposes upon immigrants. As a law, it probably produces little more hardships and injustice than most other laws, but because its inflictions have the merit of comparative novelty, they make good material for newspaper publicity. There are few better examples of the kind of stories which the law produces than this, an account of an incident which culminated last week at Ellis Island: A man of German birth, resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided...
...Lampoon special supplement for the Graduates Dinner announcement is made of a $1500 Foreign Scholarship to be awarded to the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit to be used by him for residence abroad to improve his art. The principle object of this proposal-now an actuality--is to induce the editors to cooperate with each other constantly so that the paper will be contributed to more by editors than by those seeking to be editors. The selection will be made by a Graduate Committee from a list of names proposed by the Undergraduate Board...