Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examination will be held at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, June 19, for the selection of five civilian instructors for the Department of English and about ten for the Department of Modern Languages. The men will be determined in the order of merit in this examination, and others who qualify will be placed on a reserve list, and held eligible, in their relative order of merit for appointments later on, when some vacancy occurs...
...forty thousand men now in training, ten thousand are to be chosen on their ability as officers for our first army. It is a reasonable supposition that should by merit the hundred and thirty or so men from the University be so selected, condemnation of the favoritism shown will rise to damnation. And it is a further reasonable supposition that should those officers, having undertaken with their men the defense of a portion of the battle line, by some singular feat of courage or skill force the retirement of the foe which opposes them, the Germans will then be accused...
...Rumors seem to have got abroad in some places that Harvard College will shut its gates next year, or at least will not devote itself to the ordinary process of education. If such rumors merit contradiction they may not only be contradicted, but repudiated, for the College would be unworthy of its traditions and its endowment if it ceased to carry on its proper work at a crisis like the present. The Freshman Halls, like all the other dormitories and academic buildings, will be open as usual, and the activities, especially of the freshman class, will go on without change...
...least one of the scholarships will be reserved for a candidate who has not hitherto been a member of the School, provided any such candidate submits a design of sufficient merit to warrant his receiving a scholarship...
...Book competitions as usual will be run on a strict merit basis. Credit is given both for the quantity and the quality of the work done, so that candidates of fair ability will have a chance to make the board...