Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...apparent to all observers that it is not fair treatment of the winner of the first bout. Not one sparer in a hundred possesses the requisite endurance to do himself justice in a second match after he has just boxed three hotly contested rounds with an opponent of equal merit with himself. A notable instance of a similar nature occurred at a winter meeting two years ago, at which the winner of the first bout, one of the best boxers that Harvard has ever produced, being entered also to wrestle, and somewhat exhausted, was incapable of competing again...
...January merit roll at West Point, Alexander, the colored cadet from Ohio, stood ninth in a class of one hundred...
...practice of playing match games in large cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...congratulate Prof. Boyesen on the success of his play, and bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...
...other books that proceeded it. Mr. Stinson has not followed up his first success with any long work as yet, but be has not, however, been wholly idle. Two of the recent numbers of the Century magazine contain short stories from his pen, both of a high order of merit. We cannot but wish for more from the same hand, as the number of writers who are capable of writing a respectable short story is growing beautifully smaller every day. "The story in the February Century," the Critic says, "is one of the shortest short-stories the magazine has ever...