Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of this educational system to produce leaders. It is not enough to offer all men a mediocre training, those with ability must have the opportunity of complete development. Democracy, if it is to find a solution for modern problems, must allow equal opportunity but must also allow merit to seek its own level...
...cynic might question whether the youthful exuberance of Mr. Wrigley at the age of seventy, which his rector marked for particular moral approbation, had any special merit even from the most ordinary perspective. . . . We are not sure whether the man who is driven to despair by the sufferings of the world would not have virtues which are morally preferable to this kind of superficial optimism and exuberance...
...accompaniment of a $50,000 prize contest for most moving description of its advantages, the cellophane-wrapped Camel occupied the cigaret-publicity spot light which George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. had previously almost monopolized. Exactly 952.228 U. S. citizens submitted letters testifying to Humidor Pack merit...
Believing that the conditions of medical science to students in the University are of so serious a nature as to merit careful attention, the Crimson is presenting a series of articles; of which this is the first, comprising Harvard's medical equipment and personnel with that of other colleges...
...having a degree of intelligence somewhat above the average level, will have the gall to attempt to obtain a subsidy from an institution of higher learning for carrying on their work, is deplorable, indeed. In no instance do graduate students deserve to be subsidized save as a reward for merit in recognition of outstanding achievement...