Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitting hard at the plan to drop University financial support of the minor sports is 1936, the petition backed by four Freshmen makes an excellent statement of the case for their retection. Although this is a perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether...
...present that sacrifice cannot be deemed desirable in the light both of the other sports available and of the financial situation. Harvard offers in the inter-house athletics a substitute with much merit of its own, and which could be well extended to include many of the features that make the minor sports valuable. Furthermore, the endowment, which both schools of thought believe essential, must begin somehow, and somewhere. It is incidental, yet of some importance, that the slashing done in such a prominent place may help to bring in outside money; and this in turn might well make...
...number of bold young experimenters to a cautious conservative public. Today an artist has to be only fair to get a showing in almost any dealer's private gallery. Of last week's 862 exhibits, almost without exception the only ones that had the slightest artistic merit were those contributed by President John Sloan. Abraham Walkowitz. A. S. Baylinson, Jose de Creeft and other veterans of the Independents' early days. whose sense of loyalty still compels them to send annual contributions...
...gets his biography into one column and one line of Who's Who only by the device of listing decorations from twelve foreign countries "and so forth," honorary degrees from 20 universities "and many others," announced that Chile had made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; that Cuba had given him the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Finlay and Greece the Cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Saviour; that the University of Edinburgh had promised him an LL. D. in June...
...slaves to work their new colonies, the hideous gods and little demons of primitive Africa have been turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle...