Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Specifically, the Class of 1965 received about 80 National Merit Scholarships, eight General Motors National Scholarships, 50 honorary Harvard Nationals, 45 Harvard College Stipendiary Nationals, and from 50 to 75 honorary freshman scholarships...
...Award of Merit to TIME and a special citation to Religion Writer Douglas Auchincloss "for objectivity in the reporting of religious news." The citation, from the National Religious Publicity Council, declares: "Always by means of independent research and reporting, TIME has gone behind the headlines to explore the roots of current religious thought. Typical of its thoroughness have been two cover stories, one on Christian missionaries from St. Paul to 1960 (April 18, 1960), another on U.S. Catholics and the State (John Courtney Murray, Dec. 12, 1960). Both are examples of the splendid method in which TIME has sought...
...year 1923 there appeared in Paris a little volume on architecture that seemed written almost entirely in italics and capitals. "There exists a new spirit," it said. "A GREAT EPOCH HAS BEGUN." Its title was sweeping: Towards an Architecture-as though existing architecture did not merit the term. The book was signed by a brilliant, owlish young man who called himself Le Corbusier...
...English department, Howard Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell of the Humanities, will teach off-course in the Spring on "Neglected The course will permit students to discuss "books of literary intellectual merit commonly omitted in standard courses...
...which did reflect student opinion on various facets of university life, but the Student Council created a permanent committee, the SCCEP, which gradually usurped this function. The SCCEP is better qualified to do the job in that its members are recommended by departmental beads on the basis of academic merit...