Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After incurring a disproportionate amount of comment, the University has at last condescended to clarify their position with regard to the recent Scrub Woman debacle. Admittedly the affair has received more publicity than its importance would merit, but the fault lies not so much with the newspapers as with the officials in charge of the matter. Either these gentlemen are firm believers in the adage that speech is silver and silence golden or that little boys should be seen and not heard. At all events the motives and intentions in this instance have been distorted far beyond the original design...
...made the arrangement that the first five years of the awards should be a probationary period to test the soundness and practicability of the conception. These five years have now passed and the awards are being continued in the conviction that they have proved themselves a means of encouraging merit and stimulating improvement in the field...
...educators, perhaps, have given serious consideration to Dr. Lowell's proposal to do away with intercollegiate sports, but many can see some merit in the proposal to abolish the master's degree. Students who wish to pursue further study after graduation should be free to work toward either the A. M. or Ph.D. It should not be necessary to abolish the A.M., and it should not be necessary for a graduate student to obtain an A.M. before beginning work toward the higher degree. College Press...
...winners were decided solely on the merit of their argument, the decision being based on four points: the structure of the briefs, the value of the cases cited, the presentation, and ability to answer questions propounded by the judges...
...judges decide the winners of the case solely on the merit of their argument, based on four points; the structure of the briefs, the value of the cases cited, the presentation, and ability to answer questions propounded by the judges. After the decision has been rendered, the judges customarily state what the law is, and what the decision would be were the case to be tried in an actual court of justice...