Word: merited
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www.pearlharbor.com LOOK Steely, '40s-style austerity TIME WASTER Get perspective of Japanese bombing-run pilots in a game; read accounts of real Pearl Harbor vets OVERALL MERIT Ultra-tacky but perverse fun. Take that, Yankee dogs...
...higher travel costs, the shift that would be required from a system of corporate sponsorship to one of business orientation, the opposition of other clubs to the American invasion of their markets and the restrictive rules of the Japanese professional baseball convention. "The idea is nonsense and has no merit...
...Harvardians are bred to be competitive, of course—to never settle for second best, to climb the ladder until we run out of rungs. We are valedictorians and salutatorians, merit scholars and varsity athletes whose entire lives have been defined by the quest for achievement and success. Here in Cambridge, surrounded by the crème de la crème of America’s future ruling class, we compete for everything—good grades, extracurricular offices, club memberships, summer internships, Law School acceptances, consulting jobs and of course, attractive significant others...
...worry even the 19th century: a special 1894 “Committee on Raising the Standard” rued that “in the present practice Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily,—Grade A for work of not very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity...
Summers encouraged Gazette readers to comment on the role of the provost, as well as asked for names of possible candidates “within Harvard or beyond, who merit serious consideration...