Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graduate School of Business Administration on Friday night the Harvard Advertising Awards will be announced in the presence of 100 guests prominent in the advertising profession. The awards which are made annually and total $14,000, were founded in 1923 by the late Edward W. Bok to encourage merit and stimulate improvement in advertising...
...Helen Choate Bell Prize: Open to any student in the University or in Radcliffe College, and is awarded for merit in work in the field of American Literature. For this year it is offered for the best essay of from 5,000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American Literature, approved by Dr. Sprague in Warren House. Excellence in form as well as in substance will be required. Theses in college courses and chapters from theses submitted for the degree of Ph.D. may be accepted: but no essay submitted for any other prize in the same college year...
...spite of the tremendous counter attraction that the Chicago Civic Opera Company is to the Boston Victor Herbert Festival their production of Babes in Toyland" is of sufficient merit to warrant a continuance of the exceptionally good attendance they have received in the last few weeks. The music of Victor Herbert is well enough known to make a discussion of its qualities entirely superfluous, but for those who are refreshed by its light hearted rhythmic unes, these present revivals at the Majestic are proving more than adequate...
...stand convicted," said Judge Avory, in a voice dry as burnt toast, "of one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. I do not think there is much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...
There are so many Harvard professors addressing public and private gatherings of people anxious or willing to be enlightened, that it is difficult to keep run of them all and consider on their merit their statements of fact. But it wasn't at all difficult to learn that Philip Drinker, "assistant professor of ventilation and illumination at the Harvard School of Public Health" addressed an audience on Sunday at the Harvard Medical School and declared that "Boston is not a particularly smoky city," and "it is almost impossible to inhale coal smoke in sufficient amounts to be harmful...