Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago Crapo Smith died. He was 79. And last week Michigan got the surprise. The old man had left $1,000,000 to the university. The money would go into scholarships, gifts, loans and rewards of merit to worthy, needy students, like the ones Crapo Smith had been silently watching for the last eleven years...
...profession, merely to utilize their hitting power. Pitching has been one of Berg's lesser worries. Jim Gabler and Emmons have performed creditably, the latter hurling a three-run, eight-hit job against the Jayvees. Roy Meears has been valuable as a reliefer against B.U. and Milton, and should merit a starting assignment soon, perhaps against Governor Dummer Academy this afternoon at South Byfield. Although Pete Webber is a good prospect, he is overweight (over 200) and this has affected his control. Berg needs effective pitchers--"When you have games every other day and you can't count on your...
...University decision abolishing Geography as a field of concentration "was not made on the basis of merit and conscientious inquiry into the facts," a five-man investigating committee headed by Robert F. Tranchin '48 told the Student Council last night...
Nationalist intelligence had learned a month ago that General Peng was ready to "establish merit" in the northwest. Nationalist planes, based at Sian, were alerted to watch for Red movements. Late in February, near Hangcheng, 5,000 Reds were spotted crossing the Yellow River in dozens of junks. The force headed for the Yellow Dragon mountains in southeast Shensi, where they joined another 4,000 Communists. Down from north Shensi came more. By month's end, General Peng had 60,000 troops...
...fact that the projected Crimson Key seems somewhat overburdened with committees and sub-committees does not invalidate its basic merit. The functions it intends to serve have long been sadly neglected, and if the Key performs its job well, it will have been worth the efforts of organization. It seems debatable, too, whether the Crimson Key Society will ever attain the position of prestige and honor that its proponents have outlined, and which similar societies hold in other colleges. Nevertheless, it is an experiment worth trying...