Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operated on and found fatally ravaged by cancer, doctors are often inclined to assure with a him (and perhaps his wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending...
...prose pieces of real merit are reminiscences (both true and "untrue") by lesser known writers, Anne Halley, Robert, Hellman, Diana Athill. Miss Halley's piece, a really magnificent sketch, recalls her life (or the life of her herine) as a child in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. When the Nazis ascend to power her family leaves for America...
...reply to Messrs. Schnur and Cowan on the issue of fallout shelters (CRIMSON 10/14/60), Mr. Gilder has made the same gross omissions that he attributed to both these contributors. His argument that less expensive countermeasures will eventually damage the effectiveness of fallout shelters is not without merit. However, considerations of a political and much broader kind legislate against the advisability of a shelter program. These considerations spring from the world consensus that mankind has a bleak future in a permanent "armsathon," and that no effort to call a halt is too great or too soon. The United States...
Eaton E. Lattman '62 has come up with a plan to make better use of the Merit Scholarship stipends that are won by students whose families can afford the cost of a college education. Lattman, a Merit Scholar himself, has requested all honorary winners to send their $100 grants back to the Merit corporation in order to raise money for an additional scholarship to go to a needy student...
...pooled over $600 at the College and with it will start a "Merit Scholar Scholarship" within the corporation...