Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with total awards of $57,000, will be announced at the annual dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, to be held in the Hotel Astor in New York, on December 28, the anniversary of Mr. Wilson's birth. Two contestants will receive $25,000 each in recognition of the merit of their articles on "What Woodrow Wilson Means...
...shirt and his chevrons. You know how he got his fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...
...Fogg Art Museum, opening this morning, is an exhibition of the paintings of Dr. Denman W. Ross. The paintings have a two-fold interest; in addition to their intrinsic merit as works of art, they have been produced as illustrations of the theories which Dr. Ross has developed in his scientific study of colour, representation and design, and which he has published in his well-known books, On Drawing and Painting, and The Painter's Palette. It is obvious, at once, that these two points of view and interests are really one. It is because of Dr. Ross understanding...
...Willard, Yale '26: "I deplore the petty collegiate fashion of calling the Co-op the 'Coop'. The former, as at Yale, is more dignified. Moreover, do the clubs at Harvard pick the men of merit or merely the athletic stars...
...CRIMSON's belief that such a view--maintenance of the lecture system in conjunction with tutorial work--is most logical in consideration of the lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently...