Word: merited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three magazines have followed their standards with admirable consistency. They have published volume after volume, and have given no end of practice to numerous writers. Much work of merit, much that bears the marks of genius, has appeared in this mass. But the good is lost, irretrievably buried in the accumulation of the bad or merely indifferent. But there is in the three magazines enough good material to fill one magazine that would fulfill the second ideal of which we spoke,--the ideal which would best perpetuate the literary traditions of this place...
...formed in a procession and marched to Sanders Theatre. President Lowell presided, and after the singing of "America," introduced Mr. J. F. Moors '83, who delivered the Memorial address. He spoke of civic reform, especially in Boston, and of the growing sentiment of the people in favor of the merit system instead of the spoils system. After the speech, "Fair Harvard" was sung in closing...
...overpowered by the tradition. That the gentlemanly instinct at Harvard dies hard is shown by the half-hearted and inefficient manner in which our illegitimate cheering is conducted--as if those who lead it knew better, but not quite enough better to abstain. It has therefore not even the merit of whole-souled barbarity...
...present number of the Advocate has, first of all, the great and none too common merit of being worth reading. Whether it is worth preserving I am not so sure; but the articles on matters of immediate interest to Harvard men, of which the number is almost wholly made up, are certainly just now very much worth while. They express and stimulate ideas, and this statement is high praise. Dean Castle's answer to Mr. Lippmann's objections to the Freshman dormitory scheme is exactly what we have long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted...
...lifted by Mr. Hans von Kaltenborn to an important place among college papers, and the present Editorial Board are holding it there. The April number is substantial and earnest. Much of it lacks literary finish; some of it is crude; but nearly all of it has the great merit of serious purpose--which covers a multitude of rhetorical sins. The leading article, Professor Meyer's speech on War and Civilization, is a remarkable presentation of doctrine abhorrent to many, and a masterly eulogy of war. Mr. Henderson's Harvard in Cambridge Politics, though poorly written, is worth reading...