Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prizes will be outlined Wednesday evening, when Professor I. L. Winter '86 will speak to all candidates in Holden Chapel at 6.45 P. M. These prizes founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade, of Cambridge, in memory of his son Lee Wade 2d '14, and are awarded for merit in reciting a selection of poetry. For first, second and third places, prizes of 25, 15 and 10 dollars respectively are given...
...those Harvard men who died in the service of the nation. Although the high purpose of the proposal can not be doubted, and although the benefits to the University would probably be great if the plan were carried out, there are one or two points in the case which merit investigation...
Then, presumably the liberals peacefully, continued their discussion of liberal ideas. But they had already given as ample a definition of the merit of free speech as the world could desire. It was not an open meeting, to be sure, and the interruption may or may not have been called for; the circumstances of the meeting and the nature of the subject, however, might have suggested at least a pacific refusal and an explanation of the situation. Instead the police thought it necessary to protect the disturber from the hostility of the crowd...
...necessary to the health and happiness of the ensigns, why cannot a more auspicious site be chosen for it? There are a dozen places in or near the Yard that could be selected with better consideration for the comfort of others. The war being over the students see no merit in the continued sacrifice of rest on their part, and since a change in the scene of activities cannot be deteriorative to the performance in any degree, they feel that their cause is just and should have prompt attention...
...announces the opening of the competitions for the Bowdoin Prizes for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin. As last year, the competitions will be open both to graduates and undergraduates. A prize of $250 and two of $100 are offered to the undergraduates submitting the essays of highest literary merit on any subject approved by Professor Lawrence J. Henderson '98, chairman of the Faculty Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. Three prizes of $200 each are open to graduates for the best dissertations in connection with groups of academic studies, as posted on the Bulletin Board inside University Hall. In Latin...