Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranks of the major sports and with swimming knocking hard at the door, the question inevitably comes up as to what the criteria for major sports really are. For if a game like basketball, which is played indoors before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...
Yesterday's ruling of the Faculty smacks strongly of an opening move against the Faculty's unofficial colleagues, the tutoring schools. It gives no sign, to be sure, of active hositility, and may be only an isolated bolt. At least it has the merit of having been thrown in the right direction...
...immediate question is the merit of the measure; a measure which is for the well-being of the country should not be rejected out of hand because of the circumstances under which it was proposed". Thus argues Henry H. Hart, Jr. '26 in his Alumni Bulletin article favoring President Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposal...
...Cattell printed no comment. Sequestered last week at his home in Garrison, N. Y., the old psychologist said he would make no public rebuttal, but asserted, as he has done before, that voting on star candidates is a more precise determination of scientific merit than election to the National Academy of Sciences, No. 1 U. S. learned body...
Asked what he would substitute for the two-party system which has led to such corruption here, Mr. Seasongood replied: "I do not disapprove of the two-party system in America, but rather I favor its being conducted as in England where the merit system has a more independent and more solid footing. This situation can be changed only by recognizing it. The matter is not hopeless. The main problem is that the people be gotten out of a defeatist attitude...