Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspects: the increase in the number of banks in the Federal Reserve System, the separation of security companies from commercial banks, and the more nearly complete control of banking policy by the federal government. Such changes might have taken twenty years to be accomplished in other circumstances, and one merit at least, in the present situation, is that it has brought them about quickly...
...call attention to the statistics in this morning's news article is sufficient if torso recognition of the Harvard Fund's value to the University. There are, however, two parallel developments which merit special attention. The first is the increasing importance attached to the office of Fund Agent in each new Senior class. In the forty-three years experience of the Yale Fund, the Class Agent has come to share equal significance with the Class Secretary as middleman between the alumnus and his college. There are plentiful indications that such an evolution is taking place at Harvard...
...Betters (RKO) is a well photographed version of Somerset Maugham's acrid comedy about U. S. parvenues in London society. Less a play than a gallery of portraits, it has the merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson...
...Listed in Order of Merit...
...should favor its adoption. The movement now under way for a "pass degree" with optional tutorial work, however, seems to me exceedingly dangerous, partly because it involves a lowered standard for the unawakened and lazy, but, more important still, because it strikes directly at what I consider the great merit of the present system: the discovery of latent powers and new interests by large numbers of undergraduates who have heretofore considered themselves and have been considered mediocre students...