Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LL.D. was regarded as the highest honor accorded by Harvard. Until after the Civil War, it clearly outranked the other honorary degrees, which at that time included the M.A., S.T.D., and M.D. Now there is no "rank list" of honorary doctorates, since all awards recognize high degrees of individual merit. To correlate better the degree with achievement, many new types of award have been established...
...greatest steps in the broadening of awards came after the turn of the present century when Harvard started to give full recognition for artistic achievement, especially in the realm of fiction. During the nineteenth century, doctorates accorded Whittier or Richard Henry Dana, for example, did not cite their literary merit as much as their work in the Harvard community. The commemoration of the vital role of the artist in society had to await the institution of the proper degrees...
Selwyn Lloyd - I have studied this [Soviet] draft peace treaty carefully. It has one merit. It is in itself a refutation of Mr. Gromyko's principal criticism of the Western peace plan: that it is a package. The Soviet draft shows clearly how interrelated are these various problems-reunification of Germany, security provisions, an interim status for Berlin . . . The Soviet treaty would be a Diktat . . . What the Soviet government is doing in effect is to show that they wish to impose terms on Germany as was done at Versailles...
Both books may have an odd effect on readers, for they are set in the era before the modern welfare state-capitalist or socialist-encroached on the life of the individual. Whatever the merit of the "good old days," these stories seem to refute the notion that they were happier. In tale after tale, the plots turn on the tragedies of men and women shrugged off by society and left to the mercy of God and the charity of strangers...
...During its 30 years on radio and television, Voice of Firestone won just about every merit award but the one that counts with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time on CBS or NBC, Voice will almost surely die in June. Even a last-minute offer last week by Los Angeles' KTTV to tape the show and sell it to independent stations was regretfully turned down. Having put on a high-quality musical show for so long, and having...