Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Toppan Prize of $150, offered annually for the best essay (of sufficient merit) on a subject in Political Science, was awarded this year to Ralph Emerson Heilman, of Ida Grove, Ia., Instructor in Economics for an essay entitled "Chicago Traction...
...eighth annual concert of the Musical Club last evening maintained and in some respects even surpassed the standards established in previous years. A program at once well-balanced and varied showed amply the resources within the club. With performances of remarkably even merit it is perhaps invidious to attempt detailed criticism of the separate members. Especial mention may well be made of Mr. Moeldner's piano solos for their unusual technical finish, their repose and grasp of interpretive elements. Mr. Moeldner played excellently at the concert of last year; he nevertheless shows consistent advance in every respect particularly...
There is genuine fire in the poem entitled "The Game," by F. B. T. '13. Instruments of precision would doubtless show, in the case of any reader, measurable results on his respiration, circulation, and muscular tension, thus taking the question of the merit of the poetry out of the field of opinion and into the field of fact. The magnitude of the results thus measured, however, would depend in part upon the sensitiveness of the reader, and in part upon his experience in the game...
...graduates three prizes of $200 each are offered annually for essays in English, of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning. Any holder of an academic degree in Arts, Literature, Philosophy, or Science, who has been in residence since the beginning of the academic year in any of the graduate schools under the jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or who has completed a year of residence in any of the above schools within a period beginning not more than two years before the Commencement Day of the year of competition, may compete for these...
...assistant secretary. The league again urged the passage of the pending bill for the improvement of the foreign service, and went on record as opposed to all preferences of individuals or of special classes in making government appointments. It also expressed confidence in President-elect Wilson to support the merit principle...