Word: merited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Book competitions as usual are to be run on a strict merit basis, credit being given both for quantity and quality of the work done. Thus industrious candidates of fair ability will have a chance to make the board...
Tomorrow is the last day for submitting essays for the prizes offered by the Aero Club of America to students in the University. The Aero Club is giving three medals of merit to students in each of the 50 leading universities in America for essays which are to be on one of the following subjects...
...shouldn't membership in a big club constitute a lawful reward and acknowledgment of achievement, it may be asked. If to belong to any club on Prospect was in itself an indication that a member had done something to merit honor and distinction, that question might be a fit one for argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system...
...plan of an American college in Mexico also has the merit of relative simplicity and moderate cost when compared to other schemes which contemplate the education of Mexican youths in this country through a system comparable to the Rhodes scholarships. This latter idea also has the defect that the Mexicans can hardly be expected to display much eagerness in sending their sons for a long sojourn in a country which they regard not only as alien, but as distinctly hostile...
...exchanges with Europe and with a group of four Western colleges. It is time that we should give like recognition to a great section of our country which has several institutions that are the peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects on a plane of equality, which, if tipped at all, is likely to move in the South's favor, by the grace of that refinement if culture for which Southerners...