Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to deny that this is an extremely biased book, but it is from this fact that it derives its principal merit. Even though the light in which events and facts are shown is always entirely unfavorable to France, the book has a distinct interpretative value for the student; to the layman there is always the shadow of an impartial truth in Signer Nitti's most fiery denunciations. His Francophobia must, however, always be borne in mind...
...Senate Committee on Military Affairs he was a staunch advocate of preparedness and came out strongly against his fellow-Democrat Newton D. Baker. He is probably the most conspicuously able statesman whom Oregon has yet given to the nation, and there are those who feel that he has merit as a Democratic presidential possibility...
Where the true merit of the book lies is in a remarkably vivid picture of mine life, and labor-union complications. The hero of the story refuses to join the union with the result that all the men in the mine turn on him to break him. We often enough hear from capital of the great power of labor, and from labor the opposite story, but in this instance we see a conflict between the man who takes pride in his work, and the men who want to get by, both representing labor. The description of the finale, the uprising...
...that it is to be open in the future for Sophomores as well as Freshmen will more than double its usefulness. In all three of these courses there is a common advantage: the different phases of the subject are each treated by a specialist. Biology 1 has this same merit...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 10. The Yale Dramatic Association has announced that it will present at the Commencement exercises on June 16 Shakespeare's "King Lear", undertaking the project not only because of the artistic merit of the play, but also because of the general revival of interest in Shakespearian work. Last June, the association gave "Rhesus" of Euripides...