Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier, and the portrait of a Yankee skipper. In the Tutor's common room a sculptured head, collected during the first Harvard expedition to the caves of Northern China, has been put on exhibition, together with a pair of Chinese lions, which are considered of considerable artistic merit...
Such Cruel and heavy-footed humor needs no comment unless that supplied by Pope to the effect that "gentle Dulness ever loves a joke." But a reader of the Boston Transcript has made a comment which has some merit. The comment was that the offense of the Lampoon's editors was a natural consequence of the Harvard administration's "policy of aristocratic and contemptuous indifference toward a group of unfortunate workers." After all, a university administration which has been content to evade and becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State...
...methodical way will not be indifferent to opportunities which allow them to exercise and reveal their powers, whether those opportunities be offered in the recitation hour or in the examination period. The examination, viewed in the light, is for the pupils a friendly and silent insurance against unrecognized merit--as well as a warning against scant daily preparation
...resolutions of the Senate may have the attractive political merit of giving rise to a legend that those who voted for it are 'enemies of the power interests' and, inferentially, those who voted against it are 'friends of the power interests,' and it may contain a hope of symbolizing me as the defender of power interests if I refuse to sacrifice three outstanding public servants...
...policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years. Professor Haring's lectures and the assigned reading, though it is uneven in merit, are sufficient to give a general and somewhat superficial knowledge of the course of events below the Rio Grande during the past century. The absence of a required thesis may be an added attraction for some...