Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighth number of the Advocate, which appears to-day, is an exceptionally interesting one. Its articles are, to a large extent, free from that unevenness of merit which sometimes detracts from the effectiveness of the Advocate...
...delination of character "The Barber's Romance" is successful to the end. Pride and self-assertion compromised by marriage is the theme. But beside others, the story has this additional merit, that, as the writer says-and no one after reading would attempt to contradict him-the plot is founded on facts. The reader finishes the story with nothing but pity for the poor, insulted little Frenchman, brought by love to mediocrity; and is forced for a time on this one phase of life so well depicted...
...thus to-day's game was most important. The playing on both sides was very fine, Harvard doing the better team play and Princeton the more brilliant individual work. The goals for Princeton were thrown by Bonsal and Paxton. The playing of Harvey, of Harvard, and Poe, of Princeton, merit special praise. The victory was unexpected by Princeton, whose team has been much broken up by sickness and loss of members...
...Prometheus Fired" treats of the old athletic question in a very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...
...Easter Morning" is a poem of moderate merit...