Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last week...
President Little can lay no claim of merit in anything connected with Michigan's Athletic Plant. One man at Michigan has eaten, breathed, lived and slept Michigan's Athletic Plant for more than a quarter of a century-Fielding H. Yost. To Yost is all credit due. Michigan's Athletic Plant is a living memorial to the athletic and business genius of Fielding H. Yost-long before Little graduated from Harvard College Fielding H. Yost was dreaming, planning and working out Michigan University's present Athletic Plant. It is not finished yet, but every...
...chief merit of the book in the eyes of this reviewer is the negative one of restraint. The author does not endow his canine hero with complicated powers of reasoning and intricate emotional capacities, but presents a simple annal of his actions. The style is of a simplicity almost crude in parts but effective in the scenes of action...
...book is a reporter's story, and its merit is that of all good reporters' stories--the fairness and accuracy of detail that is the living truth itself...
...type of examination which finds extreme expression in the English 32 mid-year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge...