Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This amount is well over half the $10,000 goal needed to match the sum set up by the Corporation for 20 scholarships for refugee students of outstanding ability and merit...
Only upper classmen and graduate students will be eligible for the scholarships, according to present plans. A special committee appointed by President Conant will select the recipients on the basis of merit...
While U. S. campuses rang with denunciations of Adolf Hitler, the Führer last week decorated five U. S. pedagogues with the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. The New York Times promptly wired the professors to find out if they would accept the awards. A reply came from Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep...
Prospects for other events are equally indefinite. At present, the best backstrokers are Winston Johnson, Richard Harris, and Heinzdieter von Schoenermarck. No divers or breaststroke men of outstanding merit have yet appeared...
...commends a plan of former President Lowell to allow each sport only one game a season, and that one to be with the college's natural rival, as can be seen in England in the cases of Oxford and Cambridge. He declared: "Mr. Lowell's scheme might have the merit of enabling students and the public to work off their seasonal frenzy in one big saturnalia...