Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong case can be made for keeping the Latin requirement for the A.B. degree, but only by keeping our nostalgic eyes dry and considering it on its own merit as a discipline and as a literature will a wise decision be possible...
...that some solution to the problem of acquainting Freshmen with the Houses is imminent and University Hall has undertaken consideration of the pressing problem, the reiteration of a plan to aid Freshmen is timely, and should merit some attention. The only practical way that Freshmen can learn anything about the Houses is by allowing them to take several meals in the various units throughout the second semester...
...acquaint Freshmen in a practical way with the various Houses is a problem that must be solved now before they are asked to file applications for rooms next year. Allowing Freshmen to take meals in the Houses is one way this problem can be solved, and it should merit serious consideration by University Hall...
...chief merit of "Taps" from a literary point of view is that it is short and quick-moving; there are no irrelevant episodes. The brevity of the book and the author's eagerness to make his point obviate the possibility of creating anything more than "type" characters. The same things account also perhaps for the melodramatic nature of the plot. It is unfortunate that melodrama should be carried over from plot to style and that much of the dialogue and some of the narrative of "Taps" should be so strongly suggestive of the worst manner of scenario writers...
...deny that any constructive plan focussing attention on the old problem of the University in relation to society is admirable in itself. The great merit of the scheme in question is the opportunity it offers the student to obtain first-hand experience of the vicissitudes of American government, whether Federal, State, or Municipal. It has the added advantage of presenting a possible entree to public work other than that offered by politics or the Civil Service. If the committee which will be responsible for placing students in their second year of internship could expand its function in an endeavor...