Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varying widely in each category, will be made uniform: $1,200 for teaching fellows (graduate students); $2,500 for annual instructors; $2,750 to $3,300 (rising by five annual increments) for faculty instructors; $4,000 to $7,000 for associate professors; $8,000 to $12,000 (according to merit) for full professors...
...that the policy concerning appointments ought to be more flexible in regard to salaries and rank. He objects to the automatic increase of salaries for instructors and associate professors, saying, "Instead of this automatic and mechanical increase, a more flexible scale of remuneration, non-Automatic but based on the merit of the instructor or professor, appears to be more advisable...
...begin by granting that an injustice was perhaps done in at least one of the cases which the eleven protesting members cited. This, however, does not alter the fact that a protest requesting "strict observance of the merit system; in other words, on the basis of outside activities" does not contribute one constructive idea towards the solution of the problem. It is merely the expression of an admission standard already so often expressed it has become hackneyed...
Although the Freshman protest against the House selections may be quite justifiable, the complaining group is mistaken in tracing the source of the trouble in the admissions system "per sc." The cross-section and merit principles upon which this system is based are not incompatible. For, contrary to Freshman claims, the latter in theory will never be sacrificed to the former. For under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However...
...letter further stated: "We whole-heartedly support the belief that House membership should be granted on the basis of grades and outside activities--that is, strictly on the merit system...