Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs of Harvard political clubs, even to the extent of suggesting that the members of the HYRC "had better do a little mending," is beyond all defense or excuse. If the CRIMSON is to make any pretense of being an "impartial observer" of the Harvard scene, a paper of merit, it must leave the path of "cheap politics" which it has travelled too often in the past. James H. Manahan...
...Relying simply on his feeling for subject and composition, he produced sensitive portraits of a city and an era. Atget used no camera tricks; there is no special cropping or double exposures or any of the hundred other devices that some photographers have since used to make photography merit the name of art. The art in Atget was his ability to see and this quality still distinguishes the greatest photographers...
...large programs are now operating: the General Motors National Program, and National Merit Scholarships, a $20,000,000 offspring of the Ford Foundation, born last September. Both plans have one stated aim--to draw more of America's potential talent into higher education, the highroad to an industrial desk...
...done with a more decorative and expressionistic use of pen and ink. Problems of foreshortening and uncharacteristic inhibition in proportion reflect youthful weakness in one or two drawings, but we have in the study for the figure of Christ, "Raising of the Cross" already a drawing of exceptional merit. All parts of the body add to the general momentum. There is power and at the same time sensitivity and attention to detail. The study of the Apostles' heads points to the relaxation of early Classical severity, which is replaced by the softness and warmth that are the marks...
...hiring a full professor, Mather can offer him no more than $6,180. At the end of twelve years, the professor automatically reaches a final salary of $7,680, but the Division of Personnel and Standardization bars merit raises. When the professor dies, the division is apt to downgrade his post to an associate professorship, thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally. "If the librarian requires top-level professional assistants," says Mather, "he will be told by the division that he cannot have them because the mental hospitals do not have assistants in their libraries...