...Evan Watkins The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure” assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted...

... pro-Israel groups provide followers with tested devices to shut down rational debates on the merits of Palestine resolutions, relying on established forms of discursive manipulation that violate some of the very norms they claim to defend. This essay outlines some of those devices, but it also points...

...-cut, the metres competently handled, and the imagery though not profuse is good. Mr. Stott s philosophy, also, merits a word of praise. It offers nothing new, perhaps; but it is vigorous and wholesome. The collection contains several sonnets, which, though not of great distinction, are thoroughly...

... enlightened legislation; (2) the adoption by the State of Kentucky of a pension plan for employees before a merit system for insur­ ing their permanency of employment would be illogical; and (3) a pension plan for state employees is not the cheapest, most equitable, or safest method of meeting the risk...

... that the letters are not of highest intrinsic merit, argues that they, taken with The Way of All Flesh, establish Butler as a champion of the rights of children. The editing of the letters calls for a word of remonstrance. Mr. Silver explains that he reduced footnotes to the barest minimum so as not to distract...

... administrations.2 During the 1912 presidential campaign, business organizations interested in preserving the existing improvements in the foreign service sounded out all three candidates. Wilson s reply, stating that the system of selecting and retaining consular officers upon the basis of merit has my warm...

... of diversities good for the educational enterprise.6 Some argue that affirmative action/reverse discrimination is a counterfactual meritocracy which counters the subterfuge of cre­ dentials, merit, and even seniority. Hardy E. Jones has written, On this view, people are deserving, at least within certain...

... of the Legislative Research Commission is a definite contribution toward more enlightened legislation; (2) the adoption by the State of Kentucky of a pension plan for employees before a merit system for insur­ ing their permanency of employment would be illogical; and (3) a pension plan for state employees...

..., mudpies which endure. And of his serv­ ices for those who make this noblest attempt, Connolly says, What merits I have are somewhat practical and earthy. I stay very close to the text Book Reviews 145 no soaring eagle but a low-swung basset who keeps his nose to the ground. To this merit of the author...

...; in between he discusses nearly every literary and philosophical historian of merit the giants of the eighteenth century Gibbon, Vico, and Herder; the pioneer investi­ gators of Roman and Greek origins, Niebuhr and Muller; the great col­ orists of the first half of the nineteenth century Thierry, Carlyle...

... to compress with­ in a single volume a long and notable life is commendable. The author s focus is clearly on Gallatin, and though there is ample elaboration of the narrative to make Gallatin s actions meaningful, it is not a history of the times. The literary merits of the book should commend...

... concerning the political methods of that period to a higher plane. How­ ever, none of her conclusions are startling; the merit of her book lies in the fact that it contributes to the history of the time details needed to make the story complete. Nevertheless, Dr. Barbour s monograph is worthy of serving...

.... West s own The Blue Spring, which might have taken place almost anywhere, leads one to suspect that a more interesting anthology of the works of these writers could have been compiled on the basis of literary merit alone, but the editor has precluded any harsh criticism concerning the regional...

... and there is not a note of pro­ vincialism in the book. The author is cautious in his judgments, weighing every American writer with due attention to the merits of the greater European authors. While he has written about many minor authors minor even from an American standpoint he considers them only as fairly...

... manager, he counted upon the merits of his pro­ gramme of national development and leadership in Latin American affairs to make friends for himself, and cooperated most unwillingly with Clay and Webster. But the task of resisting the assaults of Jackson s followers would have puzzled an abler politician...

.... The merit of these volumes assured the author a posi­ tion at the head of the newer poets in England, and in tech­ nique showed him to be possibly the closest rival of Swin­ burne. In these poems Mr. Noyes continues in his earlier paths, but his range of subject-matter is increasingly wide. He is as keenly...

... should receive our attention: first, his own ideals of what his work should be; and secondly, the merits and excellence of these ideals in themselves. To use his own words, Taylor settles the first of these questions for us by saying that his ideal was To worship beauty as a thing divine. Here we...

... have consented to draw it. If it is possible for you also to bestow the portrait I have solicited, I will wear it around my neck and always think how I may merit so great an obligation. I am afraid you are less happy than I wish and am sure you deserve to be. I am composing a cipher for a key to our...

... to the state, as well. McNeill Smith, chairman of the State Civil Rights Advisory Committee, once said: If, instead of employing on a merit basis, we confine Negroes and Indians by custom if not by law to menial jobs, then we neglect and drive away the skilled graduates of the schools we have built and keep...

... system is highly praised, although the author does little to explain its merits. An emigre Soviet doctor, after observing various medical systems in the West, declared that the Soviet and the German systems were the best in the world. Understandably, Professor Berman regards the use of terror against...