Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...song by Marston, Dana's "By the Summer Sea," the Gavotte by Marston, the Rondino and Romanza by Phillip, have somewhat more than average merit...
...February number of the Vassar Miscellany fully maintains the high standing of this excellent magazine. The articles are all of very equal merit. "How and What shall a Child read?" is well conceived, and the ideas are good. We are sorry, however, to notice an absence of poetry from the Miscellany; not a single verse met our eyes as we lingered over its interesting pages. Is it possible that the Muse has abandoned Vassar? We read that at the meetings of the "German Club" all the members feel obliged to talk vigorously. We are inclined to think this...
...Thayer as toast-master. Mr. M. St. C. Wright was orator of the occasion, and Mr. C. T. Dazey, the poet; their efforts were highly praiseworthy and very successful. They were abundant in wit and in allusions, the peculiar significance of which was keenly appreciated. Nor was literary merit in any way sacrificed to these; both had their instructive passages...
...audiences which were large for Harvard College. Mr. W. A. Smith's essay on "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert Spencer to leave it one spark of originality. Yet the essay showed a wide knowledge...
...which must analyze the understanding with mathematical precision, estimating the work done as the hydrometer measures the alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there is to be no more of this sort of scholastic reputation-building...