Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which were held in Philips Brooks House last night, will compete again next Tuesday. A $100 prize will be divided among these twelve on the basis of their showing in the trials. There will also be an award of six gold and six silver medals, awarded also according to merit. The twelve...
...greatest value of this bill lies in the protection that it provides against politics and party influences. Students will be selected in the same manner as for West Point and Annapolis, and the members of the Cabinet will form the Board of Directors. Merit and length of standing in the service will form the criterion for promotion, and the evils of the 'spoils system' will be materially reduced...
From the comment offered by the six Seniors out for honors and the ten Juniors in Group IV or above this selected, it is hoped that a fair and impartial idea of each field and to some extent an idea of the relative merit or mediocrity of the fields as compared one with another will be gained...
...Paris Junction. I can think of no man in my class who would go through this preposterous rigamarole, of whom I would not be ashamed when he delivered his speech in June. In the past the election of the Orator may have been influenced by considerations of general merit rather than of sparkling wit, but surely that is better than that the office be doomed forever to be filled by second-rate publicity seekers. Paul C. Cochran...
...election system insures absolute honesty. Under rigidly-enforced civil service regulations, the merit system holds good in all city departments. Last year Milwaukee had only one murder, one manslaughter. Famed for incorruptibility, its police department, under a non-political chief removable only for malfeasance, has rid the city of gangsters, given it rock-bottom burglary insurance rates. Its fire department and fire prevention program have reduced fire losses from an average of $1,440 to about $256 per fire, secured for its building owners about the lowest fire insurance rates available...