Word: merited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essays. The prize was won by George R. Fairlamb, Jr., a sophomore in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Mr. Fairlamb's essay is published by the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration and can be obtained on application to the secretary. The next in order of merit were Ralph S. Underwood, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., second place; Charles M. Ross, of Eureka College, Eureka, Ill., and Summerfield Baldwin, 3d, '17, tying for third place...
...provisions of the will of the late William Johnson Walker, two prizes for the best memoirs written in English on the subject proposed by a committee of the Society. For the best memoir presented a prize of $60 will be awarded; if, however, the memoir is one of marked merit, the amount may be increased to $100 at the discretion of the committee. The writer of the next best paper will be awarded a prize not exceeding $50. Prizes will not be awarded, however, unless the memoirs presented are of adequate merit...
...Senior elections are an institution almost as venerable as the University itself. The class offices should be bestowed as a reward of merit and for services rendered to the class itself and to the University as a whole. Since the men chosen at these elections represent the class for life, and inasmuch as the offices are the last reward and honor that any class may give to its most deserving members, college elections can hardly be conducted in the same manner as a political campaign...
...electioneering and campaigning which was exhibited during the election last Wednesday would have been tolerated and even commended in a national election. In a college, and particularly in Harvard College, where ability and merit have always been universally recognized and appreciated, such methods are distinctly bad taste and unworthy of our best traditions and ideals. It is to be hoped that there will not be a repetition of these tactics next Tuesday...
...expression which is less noticeable in Mr. Cowley's "To a Chance Acquaintance." The sonnet by Mr. Rickaby is buoyant in tone and complete in execution. "The Arthropoda," by Mr. Rogers, represents a mingling of "cold blue science with a puikish dream divine" which has at least the merit of novelty. It dwells on the common origin of the spider and the bee, and proceeds in a mildly humorous, fantastic way to narrate their evolution. Other verse contributions complete a number which exhibits a commendable freshness of thought, and succeeds in being very readable...