Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairmen of this year's Combined Charities Drive has proposed entrusting the drive to an independent, self-perpetuating organization. In the light of less-than-inspiring appeals previous to this year's success, such an establishment might have some merit, but the potential drawbacks to the plan outweigh the advantages...
...change will probably not affect future National Merit scholars here. "There have not been too many awards above the $1500 level in the past, and Harvard has had very few of them," said Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Scholarships...
Beginning with the class of '63, the maximum National Merit Scholarship stipend for entering freshmen will be $1500, it was learned yesterday. The National Merit Corporation previously set no limit on awards, but granted as much money as the student required to attend the college of his choice...
Simultaneously, the Corporation eased its ruling forbidding colleges to award additional scholarship aid to winners. If a student receives all the aid he needs, the Corporation feels an offer of additional aid constitutes bribery. If standard financial measurements indicate a National Merit winner requires more than $1500 a year, however, the College will be allowed to make up the difference...
Negro parents have finally overcome shyness, become active in the P.T.A. and risen to offices in several mixed chapters. On their merit, Negro teachers have continued to rise in the school system; there are Negro assistant superintendents in charge of elementary schools, pupil appraisal, adult and vocational education. To Washingtonians and outsiders who remain pessimistic. School Superintendent Hansen says: "Some of us think our greatest contribution to the problem is to go about our business-the education of children in our city-and let the results speak for themselves...