Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard does not award special merit scholarships or give more money to minorities, but Jewett said that the University did not lose that many students to colleges which do. Most of the Blacks turning down Harvard, in fact, decided to go to other Ivy League schools, with 18 going to Yale, and 17 to Princeton...
Early in the process, admissions officials comb the country, recruiting students from different, backgrounds and for various reasons. They write to notable students who have won awards such as Merit Scholarships or talented athletes that Harvard coaches suggest they might like playing for them. Besides those lists, officials also make a special effort to work with high school counselors, alumni organizations, and Harvard students to gather the names of qualified minority students...
...called Graustein rule, a mathematical formula that determines the number of annual appointments a department most make to remain at its current sure, factoring in the average stay of a tenured professor at Harvard Adherence to the rule is not rigors new fields in certain deciplines develop that merit an extra appointment, and departments often want to make appointments ahead of schedule when they...
...opened a massive antitrust case, accusing the company of monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. The federal suit dragged on endlessly-at a cost to IBM of several hundred million dollars in legal fees-until the Justice Department abruptly dropped it in January 1982, declaring that the case was "without merit." Recalls former IBM Chairman Frank Cary, Opel's predecessor: "The suit was a tremendous cloud that was over the company for 13 years. It couldn't help influencing us in a whole variety of ways. Ending it lifted a huge burden from management's shoulders." Jeffrey Zuckerman, special...
...high court also did itself a favor. In a ruling that may make litigants think twice about wasting the justices' efforts on hopeless appeals, they implemented a 1980 rule for the first time. Former Student Elmo Tatum, in a series of unsuccessful legal maneuvers labeled "entirely without merit" by a lower court, sued the University of Nebraska on a housing grievance. In a terse order, not only did the court turn down his appeal, it made him pay $500 in damages. Although the amount was modest, the message seemed clear: the court appears to be getting tougher on what...