Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Robert King Merton also adopted the idea of anomie to develop Strain Theory, defining it as the discrepancy between common social goals and the legitimate means to attain those goals.

During their four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy ( 1921 ), To the Ladies ( 1922 ), Merton of the Movies ( 1922 ), The Deep Tangled Wildwood ( 1923 ) and Beggar on Horseback ( 1924 ) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The ' 49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923 ), and wrote both the book and lyrics for another musical comedy, Be Yourself ( 1924 ).

The chimes are stuck on the eighth Gregorian tone, which is also used at Merton College, Oxford.

The wards containing Mitcham town centre and the St Helier Estate are ranked highest for crime within Merton with the wards containing the smaller commercial centres of Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon also featuring high in the ranking.

Merton also sits on the QFINANCE Strategic Advisory Board.

Merton has also been recognized for translating finance science into practice.

Merton also stated that " no blanket statement categorically affirming or denying the practical feasibility of all social planning is warranted.

Merton was also the first to be conceived as a community of scholars working to achieve academic ends, rather than just a place for the scholars to live in.

The University also reported that Merton had admitted at least one black undergraduate since 2005.

Merton also plays host to a number of drinking and dining societies, along the lines of other colleges.

Merton College is also rumoured to be the college of the founding members of the alleged Haxley Society, a university-wide establishment and reportedly a chapter of Yale's similarly prestigious Gamma Gamma Phi fraternity.

Wilder Penfield, a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had also previously entered Merton College.

After acquiring from Merton College, Oxford on part of Holywell Great Meadow for £ 57, 690, monies were sought from the University Grants Committee who also agreed to supply £ 250, 000 towards the building, and additional funds up to £ 400, 000 for all facilities.

Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).

) Anderson also filled in for Merton at the last minute for the special live edition for 24 Hour Panel People for Red Nose Day 2011.

The murder of Cynewulf was also considered to have taken place at Merton in Surrey, but modern historians, including the Rev G. H. Godwin now asscribe it to some place of the same name near Winchester.

Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain ( 1948 ), which sent scores of World War II veterans, students, and even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across the US, and was also featured in National Reviews list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.

Merton has also been the subject of several biographies.

That year, Merton visited Rome and Florence for a week and also saw his grandparents in New York.

Merton was also interested in Communism at Columbia, where he briefly joined the Young Communist League ; however, the first meeting he attended failed to interest him further and he never went back.

Merton also became a member of Alpha Delta Phi that semester and joined the Philolexian Society, the campus literary and debate group.

Merton also joined the local peace movement, having taken " the Oxford Pledge " to not support any government in any war they might undertake.

This newspaper was founded in 1977 by a former Conservative councillor on Merton Council, but since then the paper has been sold on and it is now widely published in different editions across South London.

Since the introduction of an official Norrington Table published by the University itself in 2004, Merton has been top seven years out of the eight years the table has run.

In November 1944 a manuscript Merton had given to friend Robert Lax the previous year was published by James Laughlin at New Directions: a book of poetry titled Thirty Poems.

In 1946 New Directions published another poetry collection by Merton, A Man in the Divided Sea, which, combined with Thirty Poems, attracted some recognition for him.

On July 4 the Catholic journal Commonweal published an essay by Merton titled Poetry and the Contemplative Life.

In 1948 The Seven Storey Mountain was published to critical acclaim, with fan mail to Merton reaching new heights.

That year Saint Mary's College ( Indiana ) also published a booklet by Merton, What Is Contemplation?

Merton published as well that year a biography, Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O. C. S. O.

Suzuki which was published in Merton ’ s Zen and the Birds of Appetite as “ Wisdom in Emptiness ”.

Nearly ten years later, when Zen and the Birds of Appetite was published, Merton wrote in his postface that “ any attempt to handle Zen in theological language is bound to miss the point ”, calling his final statements “ an example of how not to approach Zen .” Merton struggled to reconcile the Western and Christian impulse to catalog and put into words every experience with the ideas of Christian apophatic theology and the unspeakable nature of the Zen experience.

In 1962, Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., established what is now considered the correct text ; it was published by the University of Chicago Press, and contains both a " reading " and a " genetic " text.

Griffin's nearly finished portion of the biography-on Merton's later years-was posthumously published in 1983 as Follow the Ecstasy: Thomas Merton, the Hermitage Years, 1965-1968.

Laughlin's correspondence with William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, Delmore Schwartz, Ezra Pound, and others has been published in a series of volumes issued by Norton.

Writers whose early work was published in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

In 1974, Upton published together with Merton H. Miller a textbook, < cite > Macroeconomics.

The correspondence of Lax and Merton, written in a kind of comic argot, was published in 1978.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences was first published in 1968 and was edited by David L. Sills and Robert K. Merton.

Quantitative analysis of bibliographic data was pioneered by Robert K. Merton with an article later titled Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England and originally published by Merton in 1938.

The 50th-anniversary edition published in 1998 by Harvest Books, included an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note by biographer and Thomas Merton Society founder, Fr.

In The Sign of Jonas, published in 1953, Merton says that “ The Seven Storey Mountain is the work of a man I have never even heard of .” More reflectively, Merton penned an introduction to a 1966 Japanese edition of The Seven Storey Mountain saying " Perhaps if I were to attempt this book today, it would be written differently.

Also in 1970, he published John Frum He Come, a book documenting the South Pacific cargo cults -- a subject Merton was also interested in.