Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurber Album has some fine stuff about his city editor on the Columbus Dispatch. He disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs...
...what standards, then, can 316 be judged? Perhaps it is only fair to judge it on the aim which the staff sets for itself in print: "to publish a book that has some merit of its own beyond the sentimental value that accrues in a sort of compound interest on old Albums...
...merit certainly does not lie in the writing. Last year's book showed that the article on the year as a whole--the lead article--could be an exercise in good writing in an effort to convey the spirit as well as the facts of the Harvard year. This year's lead article has no spirit, no theme--except for one brief attempts to find a trend toward "purity" in a series of restrictive measures by various legislative and administrative bodies. It is essentially a rambling, not too exciting account of what went on in 1951-52, spotted with several...
McCloy, a graduate of the Law School in 1921, has been U.S. High Commissioner in Germany since 1949. He served as a Captain in the Field Artillery in World War I, received the Distinguished Service Medal and was made a Grand Officer in the French Legion of Merit. A successful lawyer in New York for 20 years, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War by President Roosevelt in 1941, and held this position throughout the war. He became president of the World Bank...
Association of the Army Medal to John J. Shea '52 for the highest standing in order of general merit; Massachusetts Society. Sons of the American Revolution Medal to William F. Looney, Jr. '53 for the same distinction: Reserve Officers Association Medal to Eliot D. Hawkins 34 for the same merit; and Reserve Officers Association of the U.S. Medal to Daniel M. Burnham '52 for the highest standing in military efficiency and conduct...