Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based on nearly eight years of close association with him, I am convinced that he will give the nation a sound and successful administration of the Government and that he is supremely well qualified to deal with those great economic problems that influence so directly...
...outside world the trend of opinion in a large academic community should have a peculiar merit. Nowhere is sound information on political questions more readily obtainable, nowhere does freedom of thought meet more encouragement, nowhere are limited interests less active than in a university like Harvard...
...Economics division of the department of History, Government, and Economics has instituted a policy of marking theses for honors on their merit alone, regardless of length, it was announced last night by Arthur H. Cole, Ph. D. '16, assistant professor of Economics...
...Philadelphia last week the Curtis Institute of Music* broke all precedent and began its fifth season on a purely scholarship basis. No tuition fees were accepted, musical merit was sole entrance requirement. Again is Pianist Josef Casimir Hofman director...
...believe in the merit system of the civil service and I believe further thatat appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve." (This was taken to refer to Negro postmasters...