Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis is to be unfair to those high schools whose academic achievement is high but whose enrollment is low. If such a list is to be valid, it certainly should be compiled on a percentage basis...
Plans now being carried out in the local schools include experiments in the organization of teaching groups, and in teacher advancement and merit. A team of teaching personnel consists of a leader, one or more career teachers, subject specialists, and a number of relatively inexperienced students from the Graduate School of Education...
What's the matter with Eisenhower, wearing the British Order of Merit at the White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth? Isn't being President of the United States enough distinction for him? Then what's he doing wearing this dog tag from the late George VI? If George Washington heard about this, he would turn over in his grave-and Abraham Lincoln...
...years ago railroad enthusiasts across the nation were shocked to learn that Lucius Beebe '27 had sold his vintage private railroad car, The Gold Coast, and replaced it with a brand new pullman constructed entirely of stainless steel and plate glass, and possessed of no historical merit whatsoever...
There is some merit in all these arguments in favor of the present trend, but basically the arguments are fallacious. They are based upon misconceptions about preparatory schools, Harvard's reputation, and the nation's financial condition. Although some preparatory schools have scholarship programs, the student who goes into an exclusive New England prep school is quite different from the one who leaves it. There also seems to be the assumption that everybody would like to go to a preparatory school and that everyone wants to go to Harvard. There are several million public school students in this nation, most...