Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting a way out of an otherwise bitter, abrasive impasse on the question of test suspension...
...tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year, 13 had either played varsity football or captained teams in other sports. The current Harvard freshman team boasts three rugged Oklahomans (two of them National Merit Scholars), amazed the experts by walloping the best Boston College freshman team in years. Yale came forth with a freshman squad exceptionally well-fixed at end, quarterback and fullback, precisely the weak spots on the current varsity...
Every student in a land-grant college is now "subsidized about $1000 a year irrespective of need or merit," said Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman of the Economics Department, in a letter to the New York Times yesterday. Harris declared that "this tradition is outmoded," and suggested that "the system be made genuinely democratic...
...sharpest attacks against the program, however, are directed at two of its most vital aspects: whether the Scholars are mature enough to merit the tremendous amount of freedom which is suddenly given them, and whether it is actually worthwhile for bright college seniors to devote an entire year to a project and to preparation for an oral examination...
...isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season would become a bitter college-wide scramble. There seems little chance, however, that the Clubs will take a turn in this direction...