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Word: merited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions are necessary. At such times those who adhere to the past, perish miserably. We are living on the brink of a social revolution. Now is the time to make real merit the basis of our consideration, and to annihilate that provinciality and suicidal folly which has been cherished so lovingly in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1887 | See Source »

...Poet of the Dawn" is a rather more ambitious poem than has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It has a great many points of merit, and, barring some few lines, appears sincere and coming from the heart not from the rhymester, as so much of college poetry does, alas. The stanzas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 11/30/1887 | See Source »

Last night the Harvard Union held its usual bi-weekly meeting and in spite of the rainy weather, a fair attendance was present. The question for debate was, Resolved. That the Parochial School System is dangerous to American institutions. The vote on the merit of the question was taken. The result was, affirmative, 34; negative, 16. Mr. Platt, '88, was the first speaker for the affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Union Debate. | 11/11/1887 | See Source »

...five musical and literary entertainments to be given at Tremont Temple, in Boston, on December 8 and 22, January 5 and 19, and February 2, will be of unusual merit. Charles Dickens, jr., figures prominently among the readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/5/1887 | See Source »

...regret that lack of space prevents my speaking at greater length of the exceptional merit of the translations given in "Some Studies in Catullus." In many instances they surpass for perfection of rendering and beauty of English, the translations of Leigh Hunt and a host of other poets, not to speak of the clumsy productions of a pedantic Munroe. It gives an admirer of Catullus intense pleasure to see his spirit caught so thoroughly and rendered so well in our mother-tongue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

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