Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quite different from anything that had yet been done in college journalism. "The Lampoon" was founded by members of the classes of '76, '77 and '78, and some of the best literary work done in college has appeared in its pages, while many of its drawings are of exceptional merit. Its publication was interrupted from October, 1880, until March, 1881, when it was resumed again and has continued without interruption ever since...
...with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable mathematician, the meditative and subtile metaphysician, are all for a time united and will probably impress their distinguishing peculiarities upon the work." The noticeable characteristic of this periodical was its fertility in stories, and poetry of more than ordinary merit. Among its editors who have since attained eminence were Nathan Hale, Jr., Rufus King, and James Russell Lowell, all of the class of 1838. An amusing feature of the magazine was the publication of extracts from rejected manuscripts under the title of "Shyllyoliana," The paper always led a rather dubious...
...that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George S. Hilliard and Robert B. Winthrop. Many articles of real literary merit appeared in its pages and it deserved a longer period of existence than it enjoyed. But indifference on the part of its contributors made its continued publication impracticable, and it died in 1828, about a year and a half after its foundation...
...both attractive and interesting. "An Outline Sketch" is the title of a pleasant picture of the distinguished American painter, Paul Reubens Smith. The closing pages of the magazine are entirely devoted to "Art Notes," which form a budget of interesting facts to artists. Apart from the literary merit of the magazine there are some extremely fine illustrations, the first of which is an etching representing "The Tow at Twilight," a scene taken from Long Island Sound. Besides this there are three exceedingly well executed photogravures...
...they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools is in more or less severe training...