Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrator in mathematics, Koch won both an Honorary National Scholarship from the College and a National Merit Scholarship...
...race are not falsely denied but make a competition in being the best . . . where nobility is not mere respectability and virtue does not produce a snigger; where the clang of work and the clamor of play attest to the common health; where enemies cannot reach us because our merit, and not our guns or our propaganda, has won the world to our side...
...indeed unusual when a movie arrives in this vicinity which has sufficient merit to pull veteran Western fans away from their early evening television vigils. Especially during reading and exam periods when the academic world weighs heavy on the undergraduate mind and the desire for Escape becomes greater each day, the Western assumes an even larger role in the Harvard community...
...There is much merit in trying to make some sort of argument in long essays," O'Neil, a former grader in History 164, explained. "In an exam the student is attempting to show the grader how much he knows; he can't just throw in raw facts...
Perhaps Supermanship's greatest merit lies in the fact that it should stimulate readers to develop Lifemanship ploys of their own. The first to practice with is obviously Counter-Potters. The possible scene is a cocktail party. Hostess: "And now I'd like you to meet Mr. Potter, the author." Apprentice Lifeman: "Crocker, did you say? Are you the fellow who writes all those cookbooks...