Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit one fourth of the time theoretically assigned to acquiring this back-ground to be spent in non-academic work is to destroy the balance between curricular and extra-curricular education. Military and Naval Science do not merit college credit...
Aside from any last minute merit the volume possesses, it also has value as legitimate review. Used for individual study or with a group, this question and answer survey of the field of English should prove an excellent means of marshalling up one's knowledge. The material for the most part is well organized and of the type suitable for college students. If there are any outstanding weak spots they are to be found in the treatment of the drama, particularly Shakespeare. But, by and large, it presents sound factual information made unusually accessible. It is a book to place...
...master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born. In a few weeks this perfunctory homage will be laid away for another thousand years. The value of this sporadic praise to Virgil is questionable. The real merit of the poet can be gained only by a first hand study of his versatile genius, not by a cursory how of respect to his memory every ten centuries. If the world of today has neither the knowledge nor the time for such a study it is better to forget...
...final argument against Radcliffe participation advanced by Dean Brown, to the effect that the play is too difficult for amateurs, should not and will not be accepted by the Harvard Dramatic Club. The dramatic organization of a university community should produce plays of artistic merit which, lacking commercial value, are not generally produced. Supposedly Cambridge will support such plays. The ability of the Harvard Dramatic Club to produce them effectively is tested by that support, not by preconceived ideas of what amateurs can or cannot...
English 35a is a course on the Old Testament of the Bible and consists of a rational and unbiased exposition of its meaning and literary merit, in itself a cause deserving of laurels. But the scribes of Israel might well be at a loss for attention if it were not for the genius and personality of their interpreter. Yesterday morning Professor Lake, lecturing before a class of about two hundred, read, as is his custom, two well known fables from the Old Testament, and read them with such a depth of feeling and expression that during the pause of fully...