Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate majority whip Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) has not sponsored any of the bills, but a spokesman for the senator said Humphrey "is for them in principle." Humphrey, who has introduced several bills for student loans and merit and need grants, is "confident some aid for higher education will pass this year...
...Boston University, will aim for a Ph.D. at the University of London, which he calls "the best school in the world for African studies." Stan ford's Tom Grey might well be the prototype Marshall scholar. He went to Exeter, where he edited the Exonian, won a National Merit scholarship to Stanford. A veteran of Stanford-in-Germany, he earned a junior-year Phi Beta Kappa key, is an honors student in philosophy. No athlete, Grey is a witty, articulate student who was president of his Stanford fraternity, will study P.P.E. (philosophy, politics, economics) at Oxford, and then perhaps...
Grant to us for thy dear merit...
...race barriers could see this important problem, could recognize their mutual classifying in terms of race, rather than in terms of individuals, perhaps a start could be made. I may be condemned as undemocratic if I say that in the white world the white person is judged on his merits, as an individual; in the gray world everyone should be so judged. The Aryan scientist is a far more valuable person to the rest of mankind than is a Negro drunkard; and a Negro scientist is worth more than a white rapist; these cases of merit are clear. Our trouble...
...become about as unpopular a chief executive as Oklahoma ever had. On taking office, he kept his campaign promise to end Oklahoma's half-century of Prohibition; that enraged the state's substantial dry minority. He set up a withholding system for state income tax and a merit system for state employees, pushed for legislative reapportionment and a dilution of the powers of county commissioners. Such reforms did not endear him to the regular Democratic organization...