Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of people in the country must needs have rules, warnings, etc., before they can play a manly and honorable game ? But experience has shown the futility of relying on this spirit of manliness which is supposed to characterize the American youth. In a team selected purely for physical merit, there are sure to be one or two men who are insensible to the finer instincts which govern a gentleman's conduct. And the example set by them is only too apt to be followed, in the excitement of a hot game, by others who would, if left to themselves...
...thus dwarf many a vigorous intellect, and disgust many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with being, in the words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower of rewards for schoolboy merit'-while thousands of despairing boys thus waste their precious hours in 'contracting their own views and deadening their own sensibilities' by a failure in the acquisition of the useless-while we apply this inconceivably irrational process to Greek and Latin, and to no other language ever taught under the sun-while...
...short time, if contributions handed in warrant us, we expect to elect one or more editors from the freshman class. As yet, we have received but few contributions of sufficient merit to warrant publication. We feel sure that there are a number of men in the freshman class who can do good work if they will only make the effort. We hope that these men will come forward and show that the class has good material from which to draw. The vacancy caused by the withdrawal of '84 must to a large extent be filled by '87, in the case...
...eleven plays the first championship game of the season at Princeton, N. J. The work of the team has from the first been deserving of all praise and they go to meet their first opponent backed by the confidence and best wishes of the entire college. The chief merit of Princeton's team this year is their rigid determination to beat Harvard in some way or other, and their wonderful confidence in being able to do so. They are strong where we are weakest, namely in the halfbacks, and they endeavor to play the entire game in that part care...
...masquerade costume, presenting a most ludicrous appearance. During the days of its prosperity the society held meetings at stated intervals at which poems and orations were delivered, In this way it soon acquired a literary reputation which, however, was short-lived. Some of the poems were considered of sufficient merit to be published. The most famous one is the "Rebelliad" which was written by a Doctor Pierce in 1819 and first published...