Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduction in size and difference in the method of reproduction. The "elephant" folio was exquisitely engraved on copper and aquatinted (principally by Robert Havell, who edited as he transcribed Audubon's watercolors, here deleting a leaf-spray, there toning down a garish sunset sky, altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess...
Vernon H. Struck '38, of Centralia, Illinois was awarded a Card of Merit issued by the All American Board of Football for his performance in the Princeton game by the Board in a letter to the CRIMSON...
...Card of Merit and a leather wallet indicating that Struck bad received an "All America" rating for his work in the Princeton game two weeks ago, were presented to him last night on behalf of the Board...
...list, one was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's sister, Marie McCahey, who had previously failed in three tests for a high-school teaching license. Several others were relatives of city officials. Soon the Chicago Board of Education was defending three suits charging violation of the merit system...
Thus aligned against their Board of Education for the first time, half of Chicago's teachers were embarked on an ambitious crusade, in which the restoration of the merit system was only one aim. Still suffering from a 22% pay cut, the teachers were out to gain the salary restorations that nearly every other major U. S. city has already made to teachers. They were out also to repair the butchery of the Chicago school system-denounced by such Titans in education as University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dean Charles Hubbard Judd -which...