Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...award of distinction? Nominally, one man may make a scholarship record far better than another, yet the latter may have done work o equally good quality, or in some cases even better. Consequently there has developed the wide-spread conviction that marks are a false measure of ability and merit...
...comedy entitled, "The Man in the Manhole"; the second prize of $50 to Stephen Finis Austin 2G., of San Antonio, Tex., for a comedy entitled, "The Winning of General Jane"; special mention has been made of "The Web," by Alice Brown, of Boston, it being considered of unusual merit. The fact that it was not a comedy barred it from receiving a prize...
...bring it out. We hope that it can bring some valuable suggestions before us, for the University after all is not perfect, and we al want to know how it can be improved. Nothing could be more unfortunate than that this prize should fail to call forth anything of merit. Aside from this, moreover, this prize appears to us valuable not only as bringing forth what has been thought, but also in stirring men to think. As children or the University we all have an interest in it, we are all responsible for it, and the more we think about...
...search through book catalogues and book collections conducted for years with the ardor and resourcefulness of a sportsman on the track of his favorite game. It contains the full series of the first thirteen editions of "The Temple" printed from 1633 to 1709, all the later editions of any merit or significance, and every book in which any scrap of Herbert's writing in prose or verse appeared for the first time in print...
Altogether a comic opera of originally great possibilities and present occasional merit...