Word: merited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Formerly officers were promoted and selected for special schools by seniority, alphabetically, and through the personal judgment of their superiors. In order to base promotion more upon actual merit than upon chance judgment and personal bias, a rating scale was formed on the principle of ranking officers of one's acquaintance according to certain characteristics, giving each individual so many points according to whether he was best, medium, or worst, and using them as a scale for selection of the men to be promoted. In this way one had concrete and definite examples or standards rather than vague notions...
...necessary knowledge, to go into the details of military "paper work." All we propose is, for the next three weeks, to bring out, by practising a few of the simpler and more generally useful forms of military writing, and by reading certain military essays and stories of unquestioned merit as literature, some of the fundamental qualities,--especially terseness and precision,--that are as important for the civilian as for the soldier...
...assume that those in a position to do so will make every effort to permit a short schedule, or possibly merely a game with Yale--if, of course, Yale is willing and able to afford the necessary opposition. In any event, judging by the present outlook, the sport will merit the support of the University...
...university will offer industrial and vocational courses, as well as graduate and professional courses, to those who show sufficient military and academic merit to make them worthy candidates for admission. The subjects offered will be so fitted to the needs of the men that every individual from the most illiterate to the university trained will be able to profit by the opportunity. And it is expected that fully forty per cent. of the soldiers will avail themselves of the chance offered by the school...
...penalizes the willing and leaves the pocketbooks of the less patriotic untouched. It places a financial difficulty on future generations; the amount of money it will realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than a Liberty Loan campaign for arousing patriotic spirit and putting the whole nation behind the wheel of war. Bonds have their serious limitations...