Word: merit
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From its inception in 1963, AAAAS had sought the addition of more courses exploring the facets of the Black experience to the university curriculum. But the administration, stating that the academic merit of such courses was questionable, turned a deaf car to the organization. As time passed, their demands changed from that of merely adding a few courses to that of establishing an entire department...
...chief translators of the Old Testament in the New English Bible -took to the letters columns of the Times of London to denounce Allegro's book as "an essay in fantasy rather than philology," which is "not based on any philological or other evidence" of merit...
...turned away from the Modern Language Center at Boylston Hall because it was considered "politically controversial." Reactions to art are notoriously variable; for whatever another opinion may be worth, I was myself impressed by the works in question; and it is some attestation of their intellectual interest and artistic merit that they are now to be shown by the Graduate School of Design. Since I had some responsibility for planning the Center, as Chairman of the Division of Modern Language a decade ago, perhaps I may add that this kind of decision is utterly repugnant to the liberal and international...
...atmosphere of confrontation and turmoil. I think that Mr. MacEwen, one of the leaders at the recent demonstration and at the same time research associate at the Center, could have given the benefit of the doubt to a group of people who for him should at least h?? the merit of being financially independent of the Center's resources...
...argument seems to have some merit. For ten years or longer all of us have lived in a special context, our thinking has been conditioned by compromises and pragmatic considerations. It is difficult to keep in touch with radical thinking and it requires vitality to search for novelty and change, if the daily work is the art of achieving the possible. Each of us will take up again the type of work we had before and probably none of us will have turned into revolutionaries...