Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this year the set subject for its Spring poetry contest will be: The Coloring of the Mountain Becomes More Brilliant. From among the thousands of poems sure to be submitted the best will be culled, and-by way of "prizes"-will be read in the adjudged order of merit to His Majesty, the Sublime Tenno, descendant and Son of Heaven...
...part of the "republic of letters" that you are welcomed first of all. I hope you will find in it an inspiring home. None of us would care to attempt a definition of citizenship in such a republic. Certainly all of those who would claim it do not merit such distinction. Fortunately, it is a republic without either boundaries or territory and its immigrants are not restricted to any quota. I hope you will find that it exists as dominant here as in the universities of your native lands...
...magazine contains articles, book reviews, short notes, and documents. If sufficient contributions are forthcoming, about half the space will be devoted to the history of New England. The Quarterly will be open to students, graduates, or any one who has something to contribute, which is of merit and bears upon some aspect of New England life or letters...
...such a course need not be trivial or superficial. Professor Mather believes that with the student's purpose definitely known and concentration excluded the curriculum could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given...
...place among modern English prose writers, perhaps the same position among English poets. There have, on the other hand, always been those critics who inveigh against the less graceful than sturdy power of Author Hardy's fictions. Famed Author George Moore found Hardy's writing almost without merit...