Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Room. Practically nothing else was talked about in the Worlds' offices next day. There were 2,867 employes. Only a few could possibly be absorbed by the prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page...
...letter stated that the subject was not important enough to merit the expenditure of the energy necessary to prepare a public debate. Continuing, it said that pressing requirements of other projects prevented acceptance. Professor Carver refused to make any additional statements yesterday afternoon, declaring that the letter stated his position clearly and the next move fell to the Socialist Club...
...must be admitted that the instructor is handicapped in his attempts to revivify French 2 by the inability of students to translate with any degree of ease. While the difficulties of translation are being cleared up, the literary merit of the work is often lost or must be passed without consideration. Thus it is well on into the second term before mere line for line interpretation is cast aside, and the more beneficial and interesting topics are discussed. The time now expended in vain efforts to conquer Joliet could be more suitably used for the earlier development of ease...
...lavished his time. The numerous council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things of the past to the graduate. They are pleasant memories, perhaps, if the student happens to fancy brilliant harangues as to the merit of his fellows as dance-committeemen. But it is reasonable to expect the acquisition of more than pleasant memories from the men who are spending four important years of their lives as dependents on society...
Winners of the Harvard Advertising Awards for 1930 will be announced at a dinner tonight at the Faculty Club of the Business School. The prizes, which total $10,000, were founded in 1923 by the late Edward W. Bok to encourage merit and stimulate improvement in advertising...