Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schiff was 13 years old he went fishing in the Adirondacks, caught a 23-lb. salmon trout. His father, rich Jacob Henry Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., joyfully cabled the news to friends abroad. Young Mr. Schiff's salmon trout did not help him win a Boy Scout merit badge, for the scouting movement did not reach the U. S. until 20 years later. But in 1910, when Mr. Schiff was 33 years old and an able financier (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), he helped found scouting in the U. S., became a member of the Boy Scout National Executive Board...
...expect an education without cost and without effort directed towards his own support if he lacks other means. On the other hand, it would be discouraging if potential scholars were stifled because of insufficient cooperation and inducement. Just what standards to set up in order to determine the relative merit of candidates for financial aid has been the subject of differing views. Careful study, however, covering the history of students in college and their success in after life, contributes to the feeling that the present bases of determination and distribution are fundamentally correct...
...Souer's scholarly book is complete, accurate and well written. The volume never becomes boring even for the layman. The true merit of it, however comes in its value as a reference book for the student of that literary period. In addition to an exceedingly copious bibliography, the letters to Poliarchus are invaluable. Although Orinda did not reflect the life of the times in her writings as much as did her contemporary, Pepys, she unconsciously drew a revealing picture of herself and consequently of her times...
President Johnston last week smiled at the editors' fight, declared: "Controversies are plentiful when one does business all over the world. After all, no product advertised or otherwise can live unless it has merit...
...decade ago he was charmingly introduced at Yale by President Hadley and gave his lecture ''The Ignorance of the Educated." Either the title or the subject matter has the merit of persisting. I recall both with relish...