Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large attendance was present, and the interest manifested in the question for debate-"Resolved, that the sentence against the Chicago anarchists was just"-was lively and general. The meeting was called to order by Pres. Furber, the minutes of the last meeting read, the vote on the merit of the question taken, which resulted in 116 affirmatives to 5 negatives, and then Mr. Osborn, L. S., opened the debate for the affirmative. He reviewed all the proceedings of the anarchists in Chicago until they culminated in the fatal catastrophe of last May, for which seven men are now held...
...courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency to degenerate into brutality...
Through the spring the boat was tried a number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached...
...entirely uncalled for, because the nine management has done its best to arrange games and has been unable to do so. The withdrawal of Columbia has affected the schedule materially and at this late date it has been found impossible to obtain dates from any nines of any merit what soever; the game with the Beacons has been given up but there will be contests with Brown and with the Holy Cross College during the week...
...From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived...