Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first, but by the stimulus to all others implied in the fact that subsequent admission to its ranks will depend only upon literary merit. Upon this latter point, to our thinking, the success or failure of the whole thing depends. Admission must never be allowed to degenerate into a matter of favoritism between individuals or colleges. Secondly, the promotion of good fellowship and an amiable emulation between the different colleges, and, thirdly, the inauguration...
...this prominence. In one way the existence of these societies is to be deplored. The membership list is considered to represent the leaders in the special department to which the society is devoted; and such an arbitrary ranking as the society makes creates a somewhat false standard of merit, and is likely to do injustice to those who have been left out of the society by mere chance or carelessness or by the prejudice of individual members...
...Banner, Yale's illustrated annual, has recently appeared. The Banner is a publication similar in plan to the Harvard Index, only considerably more comprehensive and pretentious. Illustrations and illustrative headings appear throughout the volume of more or less merit. A catalogue of the students is given, followed by an extensive and useful directory of the college buildings, where the names are arranged by rooms instead of alphabetically. There follow the usual society and athletic statistics, as in the Index, including valuable statistics on the last college base-ball season, compiled by J. C. Morse, a graduate of Harvard and base...
...Williams Argo (Vol. II., No. 10) we cannot help thinking in literary merit-in lightness and finish of style throughout-surpasses all of our exchanges. We commend it to our readers as very nearly a model college literary journal...
...Brunonian thus comments on Prof. White's new method of instruction in Greek poetry: "The novelty of the plan thus proposed will doubtless have the effect of securing the interest of the classes. It certainly has the merit of allowing the widest range of freedom to the student and at the same time of demanding results which could only be attained through a thorough knowledge of the text. We would be glad to hear of the success of the experiment...