Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxan Toppan '58, of Cambridge, is offered for the best essay of sufficient merit, on a subject in Political Science. The prize is open for competition to all students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or of any of the professional schools who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years' standing. Theses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in the Division of History and Political Science may be considered for this prize...
...best undergraduate essay of at least 3000 words on the subject: "Harvard Men in the Revolution." The essay must be handed in to J. G. Hart '93, in University 20, on or before May 1, 1910. In judging the essays literary excellence will be considered as well as historical merit. All essays must be typewritten and are subject to the rules governing such competitions, which may be found in the Catalogue...
...entrusting the assignment of rooms in the Senior dormitories for next year to the members of the Junior class, President Lowell is showing a confidence and liberality which it will be difficult for the class to merit. Its members are being allowed to apply in groups of from one to 16. They are being allowed to assign the rooms themselves, and they are promised as many rooms in the Yard dormitories as they can occupy. Such privileges have never before been granted to any class, and it can best show its appreciation by making of the Senior dormitories an unprecedented...
...Senior year friendships are so firmly established that residence in the same entry is not enough to break down the barriers of reserve established by several years of non-acquaintance. That these conditions will be much changed by allotment by entries or in large groups, is not evident. The merit of the scheme seems to be altogether in making the Senior dormitories more pleasant for their occupants, and so making the dormitories more generally popular...
...highly developed system of case instruction for which the Law School is justly famous makes that department superior to rigorous entrance conditions and to the high standards which are maintained. The national character of the School, achieved by merit alone, is proof that location far from the geographical centre of the country is no bar to students who are desirous of the best educational advantages...