Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
...opinion of those closest to the program's operation, this problem can never be completely solved. Their provisional answer has been to judge each application separately, on the basis of the student's record and supposed "character," and the merit of the proposed study program he submits--a procedure which could lead to unduly arbitrary decisions. The head tutor in each department and the Administrative Board conduct these evaluations; both must approve each application. During the first few months of the program, the Committee on Advanced Standing carefully scrutinized all requests. But they lacked the knowledge to evaluate the merits...
...arrows where they are not deserved (notably at the trend toward "interpretive writing") and a few compliments where they have not been earned, his book is a useful assault of the complacent "news business." Of course, it is doubtful that anyone will give him the respectful hearing his complaints merit. When he expressed a few of his opinions in speeches while still Executive Editor of the Hartford Times, Lindstrom was politely "asked" to shut up or retire. Journalism, it seems, has no use for intelligent, conscientious critics...
...home over the need for a better atmosphere between Germany and its friends and the usual opposition to spending money on practically anything. Von Brentano's meeting with Kennedy, like Adenauer's talks with De Gaulle costs nothing and can be presented to a smug electorate as a diplomatic merit badge: personal diplomacy is cheap...
Even without major expenditure, however, Harvard can accomplish a great deal to justify its claim to intellectual and educational leadership. John L. Holland, Director of Research for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, commented recently that "expensive colleges may not necessarily be the best," and that the "productivity of schools depends "more on the quality of its incoming students than on any attributes of the college itself." But high-quality students matriculate in Cambridge, and still may not gain the most valuable education...