Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merit in my plan for world peace, I wish you would give it to your associates and the Press...
Your article emphasized the number of National Merit semifinalists in the senior classes at Andover and Exeter. At our own school, 27.7% of the class of 1963 are semifinalists. Such statistics are limited in value and even dangerous, but they do indicate that there may be other independent schools outside the East that are worthy of notice...
...Fresher than Princeton." Once a purely Western preserve, Stanford now ranks third behind Harvard and M.I.T. and just ahead of Caltech as the first-choice college of National Merit scholars. The graduate business school's students are 25% Ivy Leaguers. The university is getting so international-minded that it now has 503 students at branch campuses in Florence, Stuttgart, Tours, Tokyo and Taipei...
Paying the Price. Ironically, Los Angeles' indifferent newspaper readers also stand to benefit from the loss of two papers. In the last ten months, the fat and lethargic Times, which had the habit of substituting sheer bulk for journalistic merit, has begun to show new life. It is even bulkier than before, but it is a far better newspaper. The Times has beefed up its Washington coverage and joined hands with the Washington Post in the organization of a news service. It has also added four fulltime political editors, two of them stolen from Hearst. Foreign coverage has grown...
There was one more interception--by Armstrong--before the half ended, but other than that nothing of great merit occurred. After the Band's back-handed salute to the Massachusetts Senatorial candidates at halftime a large portion of the crowd of 5,000 left for cozier quarters. Penn's band lacked the courage to march...