Word: meritable
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Although he admitted that those three theories may be true, he questioned their merit in explaining the universal, widespread popularity of religion...
...students graduate after four years with patchy knowledge in their fields. Cutting back on the number of credits required in one’s concentration would only further reduce that knowledge, they will say. Yet the damaging effects of cutting down on tutorials can be minimized by increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science...
...university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...
...Everything about Harvard is about merit,” he quipped. “Unless your father went here. Or you gave [Harvard] a building...
...only has Mr. Trump done little to merit his wealth, or the reputation that goes along with it, but he’s done little good with the money that he does have. Wealth should, if anything, be a means towards greater refinement and culture and a higher sense of social and moral responsibility. Gold plated toilets and a jet with your name on it do not qualify as such...