Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter from Prof. James, published in another column, deserves the attention of every man in college. After exhorting the students to celebrate their athletic victories in a manner which shall merit the trust reposed in them, he goes on to give the theory of college government; that is, that government of students should be by students, that all matters of discipline should be decided by them just so soon they show fitness to be intrusted with such matters, We think that the time is now ripe for carrying out this theory at Harvard...
...annual prize speaking for the Boylston prizes is one of the most interesting public exercises during the academic year. This year the speaking promises to be of the highest order of merit. Although some of the Boston papers last year criticised quite severely the "lifeless action and more lifeless diction" of the speakers as they were pleased to express it, this criticism arose from a mistaken idea of the true art of elocution, gained, perhaps, from a too great familiarity with the old style back country college oration. Mr. Jones's method in teaching is now beginning to bear...
...symphonic poems of Wagner, Berlioz and Lizst. Beethoven's style was illustrated by the great trioop. 97, played by Messrs. Lichtenberg, Jonas and Perabo, and by the Kreutzer Sonata by Lichtenberg and Perabo. The names of these artists mean simply that the perform nice was of the very highest merit...
...believe sincerely that literary work is done at Harvard which has a distinct merit of its own, and which is worthy to be put in permanent form. We do not, however, intend to conine ourselves in any strict sense to literary subjects. In the Finance Club, the Historical Club, the Philosophical Club, and the various other organizations of the college, as well as in the graduate schools, we believe that work is being done which, if written in clear and good form, is well worth publication. Our aim will be to represent the best thought of the university, as well...
...other institutions of learning does merit receive so directly its reward as in the Naval and Military Academies. In no others is there so powerful a stimulant to stand high. For not only a man's rank, but also his very retention in the service depends upon his standing as a cadet. This, of course, reacts to make the standard at these academies very high. So that, of late, complaints have been made that the Naval Academy in particular was becoming a school of general science, and losing too much its characteristic peculiarities as a naval school. But we think...