Word: merit
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Admissions officials at other Ivy League schools said they also felt pressured by other institutions' offers of merit-based scholarships to talented minority students...
Ronis, who now lives in North House, was adynamo in high school, snagging avaledictorianship after captaining the math team,being on the debate team, getting straight `A's,'winning a National Merit Scholarship, whileconstantly involved in theater. His firstshow--"which may still be my mother'sfavorite"--was Once Upon a Time on aMattress. He entered Harvard a hesitant butprococious pre-med--taking organic chemistry hisFreshman fall--but a stint in several excitingproductions persuaded him his vocation was thestage...
Fisher said that increased offers of merit-based scholarships for minority students by non-Ivy colleges, a Westward geographical shift in Harvard's applicant pool, and the decreased number of successful early action candidates all combined to depress this year's admissions yield...
Futrell, whose NEA is the nation's predominant teachers' union, approved of the teacher-centered thrust of the report. But, though a task-force member, she expressed doubts about the pay system and the lead-teacher concept. She feared that they might "become another merit pay or career ladder plan, those plans having been seriously flawed and having failed in many instances in the past." Ultimately, the attitude of experts like Futrell may be the key to the Carnegie program's success or failure. For just as teachers are central to the study's implementation, they will also determine whether...
...Harvard's men's and women's rowing merged to form the Friends of Harvard Rowing. Under the new system, men and women apply for grants for individual programs. The managing committee, which accepted its first woman member in that year, judges the applications on the basis of merit, regardless...