Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Afternoon Tea," is the most senseless effusion that has appeared in the Advocate for a long time. It is of little literary merit...
...only story in the number, "Winona's Wooing," is not without merit, but it is so long that it is very tiresome. The first part, Corporal Tubb's Soliloquy, is the best thing in the whole story...
This is a comprehensive text-book of Psychology, intended to be used by beginners in the study, and especially in high and normal schools. Such being the purpose, its scope is necessarily limited and its treatment is very general. The chief merit of the book is its admirable conciseness and clearness. Even to advanced students it will prove valuable as a ready hand-book of definitions. The subject is treated in a strictly systematic way, the method being first to give a definition, then a brief elaboration, and lastly a simple illustration. The author lays no claim to originality...
...ability thereby gained of better appreciating the whole scope of art were of the greatest value to him as a dramatist. Through all his great tragedies he is constantly viewing things with a painter's eye, which gives to them a greater unity and a higher artistic merit. All of the dramas of Euripides, with one exception, were composed after the completion of that marvel of architecture, the Parthenon; and the sight of this structure must have been a constant inspiration to one who had once been a painter, and could therefore fully appreciate the beauties of such a building...
...summonses, was a piece of smartness which calls for severe condemnation. Fortunately the attempt was only partially successful, for the deception was discovered early in the day. As it was, it resulted in a great deal of inconvenience at the college office he joke had not even the merit of being funny and for silliness and freshness it would be hard to match...