Word: merited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sure the advisability of having a course in general history, like History X. or XI., count, while History VIII., which deals mainly, if not entirely, with political and legal institutions, may well be questioned. This, however, is but a question of detail and in no way affects the merit of the plan of having honor courses more general in their nature. Now that a beginning has been made in this direction there is one other honor course which might well be established and which would certainly lead to good results. There are many students who, either through a fondness...
...course, a Harvard reader can always find something of interest in the papers of Yale, Columbia or Princeton, our great athletic rivals, but in other respects few of them are worthy of extended perusal. The Columbia Spectator finds many readers here, however, and is always a paper of sufficient merit and brightness to repay reading. The Princeton Tiger is of the same class, only "more so," and is rapidly becoming a very entertaining and valuable publication. But the journal which, in our opinion, would be found most readable, on account of its general spirit and excellence, is the Williams Argo...
...announcement that the volume of sketches from the Lampoon is about to appear will be received with pleasure by all Harvard men. The volume is assured of success even before the issue, since the merit of its contents has been already proved. It will be an excellent thing to have in the family and is a volume no Harvard man can do without...
...tongue devotees in the country; but," it continues, "for one man, in the midst of the pressing work of the junior year, to write up an entirely original play [Penikeese], such as shall satisfy an audience far harder to please than any Greece ever saw, is not without its merit...
...been the treatment which we have received, undeservedly, we trust, from those of the sons of Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force on the right hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares...