Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement was also made of the approval by the committee of the appointment of Christopher M. Weld, Jr. as manager of intramural football and of Merit K. Buddock '36 as manager of Freshman golf...
...changes in mind it is difficult to imagine how Harvard expects to prepare its candidates for the Latin reading examination. The English department cannot be criticized in principle since Latin has more than a considerable bearing on the study of English. But the modern sentiment in education, disregarding its merit for the present, is definitely in the direction of a weakening of the hold of the classics. The new requirement of the English department is just as definite a step in the opposite direction and appearing at this time seems almost an anachronism...
...ideas, has been his most powerful political tool. Last week in Washington his political advisers were urging that it was time for him again to use that tool, to bring 122,000,000 people once more enthusiastically to their feet, to cheer them, convince them again of the merit of his aims, and win back the support of those who have begun to straggle...
...Harvard owes it to the country to be truly national, having a student body which is a cross-section of the nation, open to all of real merit," said President Conant at the Hot Springs Meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday night, "My chief concern at present is to provide larger fellowships for men entering Harvard College and the graduate schools, drawing brilliant young men from every state regardless of their resources...
...must adopt a policy of faculty replacement which provides for competent instruction of its students as well as opportunities for research men. The men who are assigned to teaching for the most part much not be expected to do research work in order to secure promotion but must merit advancement according to their ability to understand their subject, keep up with its developments, and impart it intelligibly to students. Research and enlightenment much aid and abet each other. No educational institution can maintain a prominent position in the educational world which neglects either or allows one to assume...