Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed...
...hardly be truthfully said that Harvard sports and Harvard have suffered through what is nothing more than an application of the Golden Rule. There was a time when the mention of a Harvard team was the automatic signal for loud guffaws, and this entirely aside from the merit of the team in question. Whenever athletic Harvard became embroiled in a public controversy per opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni...
Secondly, the Dramatic Club has always considered with an eye to production the dramatic efforts of undergraduates, but it has been impossible to produce any of these plays which have been submitted in the last few years. Most of them have had little or no merit, or if there has been merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality...
...closing, I should like to say that the club sincerely hopes to obtain before its fall production an undergraduate play of real merit. Meanwhile it feels that it has a good musical comedy written by an undergraduate, which it demes more expedient to offer than a poor play. Very truly yours, E. T. Batchelder '30. Production Manager...
Resignations. Alive to the need for reorganizing the Government, President Hoover touched the centre of resistance to this long-delayed program when he called last week for the resignations of all executive officeholders from sub-Cabinet members down to the unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President...