Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...features of the tournament yesterday were the final singles between Huntington and Hurd of Yale, and in the doubles the matches between Huntington Brothers of Yale and Stevens and Post of Columbia. These matches were well contested but the playing not of the highest merit and there were few brilliant rallies. The summary of the games is as follows...
...freshmen published today, the incoming class of Ninety-three is considerably larger than any previous freshman class. This fact certainly, taken by itself, is a gratifying sign of Harvard's growing prosperity. Unfortunately for all concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With...
...current number of the Advocate contains several articles of unusual merit and as a whole is one of the best of the year...
...only verse of this number is a stanza, "The Place of Love," with little merit. Some rather unin-eresting Daily Themes and the Advocate's Brief complete the number...
...Austen's Novels," R. E. N. Dodge gives an exhaustive criticism of one side of Miss Austen's writings. He considers her "provincial" of course in her range of subjects, and "provincial" as far as this term signifies "lack of deep insight;" but this quality has aided her chief merit, precision, while it has not led to trivialness...