Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor a salary increase for State employees based upon a rise in the cost of living. Once again the merit system will be in force and the conscientious State employee will not need political influence for promotion. I favor prompt cost-of-living increases for Old-Age Assistance recipients and provision for housing units adapted to the needs of the aged in public housing projects...
...quite surprised at the statement in the obituary of Santayana that there has never been a Spanish philosopher. Francisco Suarez [1548-1617], a Spanish Jesuit, was one of the foremost systematic thinkers of all time. Besides being a theologian of great merit, he was the first scholastic philosopher to write a formally philosophical treatise, his Disputationes Metaphysicae. Furthermore, his De Legibus is an acknowledged milestone in the development of the philosophy...
...hard at his trade and sometimes wonders if he is going at it in the right way. "I'm always trying to strike a balance between the funny stuff and hard work. Sometimes I wonder if I'm succeeding." A look at the record indicates that his technique has merit. When Schmitt came here in 1950 as an aide to Lloyd Jordan, the whole Harvard team was eating mud. The Crimson had scored one victory and lost eight times the previous year. The team's record didn't improve much in 1950--one victory and seven losses--but the rebuilding...
...Orchestra I should like to express an opinion different from that of Professor Jerome Bruner. My only feeling of regret at these concerts is that too frequently the resources of a great conductor and a magnificent orchestra seem to be wasted on a work which seems to have no merit except being new or by an American composer...
Eisenhower, as President of Columbia University, has drawn considerable criticism from members of the faculty and from the daily student newspaper. Many claimed his long absences were proving detrimental to the University, and that his education was insufficient to merit his guiding such an institution...