Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when the new companies are organized. Their cases merit no concern...
...remaining group of undergraduates--those who may plan comfortable holidays at home or away from it--merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend...
...grenade instruction eight men qualified as instructors according to merit in the following order: R. J. Philips '21, A. H. Bright '19, J. G. Remick '21, J. Holmes '21, T. H. Mills '21, A. W. Rhodes '21, N. H. White '20 and J. J. Cochran '19. In addition the first four named qualified as grenade throwers, the remaining men lacking the strength and receiving only qualification as instructors. The entire grenade groups were given the rating of instructors in the Hebert system of physical training...
...university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
...that politics and an effective direction of war cannot be combined. As surely as favoritism can never be the basis of military organization, partisanship has no place in the war councils of any nation. In recognizing this fact, England and France have established their coalition cabinets and have made merit the determining factor in all appointments to office. Since a year ago last April, the question of politics in our national Government has been foremost in the public mind. Leaders of Congress and the press have not been slow to lay charges of partisanship at the administration's door...