Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merriam, who is well liked by his congregation, promised to carry his fight to the New York State Synod and to the General Assembly if need be. "I am shocked by the presbytery's action," he said. So, regardless of the merit of the charges, were other clergymen, who worried about the presbytery's behavior in removing a pastor over the objections of his parish. Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell, minister emeritus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, called the exercise of power "disturbing to ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church at large...
YALE'S incoming freshman class ranked second only to Harvard in National Merit Scholarship winners, snagging 40 to Harvard's 89, and tieing Radcliffe. The figure represents a record number of winners for the Elis...
...mostly from Minnesota. It has some pleasant distinctions: a 22-member bagpipe band in Macalester clan kilts, a 40-acre campus along swank Summit Avenue, where Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up. But none of this explains the school's greatest claim to fame. In number of National Merit Scholars, a status symbol among U.S. colleges, little Macalester is year after year among the top ten campuses in the nation...
Last week, as the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced a record 1,050 winners, Macalester did it again. No fewer than 20 chose Macalester, which was outstripped only by nine other predictable choices such as Harvard, with 89 winners, Yale's 38, Princeton's 33 and Radcliffe's 38 (the female front runner). Trailing Macalester were Cornell (17), Michigan and Berkeley (16 each...
...dependable is the unsolicited supply that the Board has only once deemed it necessary to uncover journalistic merit on its own; in 1937 it gave a prize to the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick-who had not bothered to submit her articles on Pope Pius...