Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Masters who could be reached expressed great pleasure at receiving the money, but none has ideas as concrete as Hoadley's. "The difficult will not be to find projects," Joseph L. Walsh '16, Acting Master of Adams House, said, "but to decide among the many projects that merit support...
...trial with ranting charges of espionage, counterrevolution, tame confessions and abject apologies. Confronted with the case of the Poznan rioters, the Polish Communists, enjoying a measure of autonomy for the first time, thought they had a better idea: a free and fair trial to show that their regime had merit. But last week, after eight days of free and fair evidence of life under Communism, the embarrassed Polish Communists began desperately seeking a way to curtail the trials. Poznan and its aftermath were proving to be the most significant of recent events in satelliteland...
...attention as: How can the nation make sure that its brightest high-school students will go on to college? Last year the U.S. got one answer with the formation of the most ambitious, privately supported scholarship program in history. Last week, from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of its first winners-the 556 members of the new elite who now bear the title National Merit Scholars...
Those who needed no financial help got only the honor of being National Merit Scholars. Others got small grants of $100, still others were marked down for as much as $2,100 a year. N.M.S. also gave to the colleges the students picked (the favorites: Harvard, M.I.T., Caltech and Cornell) an amount, up to $750. equal to each college's tuition. But the more important boon to U.S. higher education lies in the young talent it has spotlighted, much of which it might never have seen. Among the 1956 winners...
...York State Commission Against Discrimination, 18 U.S. airlines last week took a big step toward hiring Negroes for flight crews. The lines, all of which fly into New York, announced a joint policy of "judging applicants in all categories of employment and upgrading on the basis of merit, without regard to race, creed, color or national origin." In addition, they agreed not to solicit job seekers from agencies and schools that bar Negroes...