Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free medical service to indigent thousands, a hospital ship plying Japan's Inland Sea, a Better Farming Society. He was an ardent archeologist, a connoisseur of native art. For his services to journalism and public welfare, the Emperor made him a peer, gave him the Second Order of Merit...
...Listed in order of merit) ANONYMOUS FOOTSTEPS-John M. O'Connor-Cheshire House ($2). An ill-natured family-greedy-hateful-wait on an icebound island for one member to die. Five men are murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...
...William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson institute was awarded the medal at the same time. This award is given for special merit in the field of science and Invention and such eminent scientists as Thomas A. Edison, Robert Andrews Millikan, Albert A. Michelson, James McKeen Catell, and Gilbert N. Lewis have won the prize...
...know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines pay, he shows the lines are paying. His reports are neither a credit to him nor to the Secretary of War who accepts them. The state-merit that the lines pay taxes to the cities to which they operate is an insolent quibble...
Perfect justice in the public recognition of merit is as impossible in the academic sphere as it is in the world at large. Nevertheless, any formal recognition which obviously falls short of a reasonable degree of justice is bound to lose much of its meaning. This has been the case with Phi Beta Kappa elections. The award of Phi Beta Kappa keys based wholly or mainly on course grades has rightly, been criticized, for course grades are a superficial criterion of intellectual capacity. It is recognized that general examinations and honors theses are far more adequate tests of intelligent scholarship...