Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief stumbling block which the Sphinx Club faced was that a majority of the Council has serious doubts as to the merit of the club system, and, in particular, the merit of the final club as an institution at Harvard College. Some Council members who disliked the club system felt that they could not vote to give the Sphinx Club a charter because such a vote would constitute endorsement of the club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs...
Swimming: letters: Grace Anthony '49, Virginia Gossard '49, Valentine Loring '52, Patricia McMillin '50, Elizabeth Moses '51, Martha Sherich '51. Numerals: Alice Blum '52, Elinor Gossard '51, Cherry Merit...
...fistfull of fillers start the program. They vary in merit, but "Mauve and Burgundy" from "The Safe Crackers," Jim Perrin's able singing of "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" and "A Wandering Minstrel I," and the Trio, "If you go in," from "Iolanthe," make it worthwhile to arrive tonight for the first half of the fare...
...choices of plays have not been all wise, nor even of artistic merit, at times. "Waiting for Lefty" was given the best production, but the talent could better have been lavished on a less dated play. "Amphitryon 38' was also well done, and like "Lefty" made a profit for the Club, but it was a play unsuited for amateur production, containing too few characters and demanding too much of its inexperienced principles. Anyone that tries to make a profit out of reviving Ibsen these days is very foolish, as was the HDC last year with "An Enemy of the People...
...saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn because the Awards have been given consistently on artistic rather than commercial merit, which is what he says the studies want...