Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anything more than a farce, it seems desirable that the system of conferences and classroom papers already extensively in use should be further extended, and should, so far as possible, supplant this mechanical writing of unprofitable reports. A paper written in class has at least the merit of demanding some general knowledge of the subject, and an oral conference serves both to clarify and fix the ideas of the student, and to assure the instructor that the student is taking an intelligent interest in his work...
...thought was to withdraw our names from the nominations for office. Such action we feel would serve as a just protest against political organization, and as a reminder to future classes that elections at Harvard should be based, not upon class or social distinctions, but upon proven worth and merit alone...
Three Prizes of $200 each are offered annually to Graduate Students, for essays 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 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for one full year within a period beginning not more than two years before the time when the prize is to be awarded, may compete for these prizes...