Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antelope, are far more accurately observed and gracefully drawn than the people. There are also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest merit in themselves. A small show of advanced abstractionists like Klee, Miro, Arp and Masson was added to the exhibit by Director Barr to show that some living painters are not very distant in spirit from the Mtoko masters...
Optimistic about the chances of a college graduate in public life, New York's Mayor LaGuardia declared that "experience should be coupled with education in preparation for working up in the civil service." He decried the "political impractibility" of practicing what is preached about the merit but emphasized the necessity for the system...
Robert L. Johnson, president of the League and one of the founders of "Life" magazine, spoke at the college organization meeting which followed the luncheon. He offered detailed programs for the founding of college chapters of the League "to better governmental conditions through the merit system and to supply information to those students directly interested in some phase of Civil Service as a career in the future...
Dean Hanford has the following statement to make concerning the League: "The Civil Service Reform League is a reputable organization with a long and useful history. It has fought most of the important battles for the merit system in this country...
Both of these suggestions have real merit. The first proposal stresses the need for proper planning of the Freshman's program, rather than any change in the course as it stands. For many Freshmen, coming out of the New England schools where English is taught as more than just a means of talking to one's neighbor in study hall and is treated as one of the fine arts, are already acquainted with much of the material with which English 1 deals. It would be more profitable for these men to dig right into the field...