Word: deservingness
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Just when you thought there was not one word left to be added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense...
In much of Britain today, being an Etonian is not something you really want to brag about. The well of resentment is too deep. Rory, a student in his fourth year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight...
Of particular concern were the significant cuts in government loans for higher education. The cuts, which totaled about $12.7 billion, included raising the interest rates on various loans as well as an end to inflationary increases in the amount of money Pell grants award. According to the College Board, 12.3...
“Regardless of the imperfection of this process, we know that these particular winners are deserving of their special recognition for their dedication to undergraduate teaching,” Petersen said in an interview yesterday.
Witty, sharp, and hilarious—these words fit when Aristophanes first wrote “The Birds” in 414 B.C. This past weekend, April 27 to 29, at the Agassiz Theatre, the words fit again—but the Harvard Classics Club elevated these definitions up to...