Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When does a building become more important than its purpose? Why do some buildings become such reference points that they may never be torn down? After all, many works of architectural merit and structural solidity have been destroyed in the name of war or progress (witness New York City's Pennsylvania Station). Some buildings, it seems, put down foundations in the psyche of their location; they may grow old but will never become dated. Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp is a certain survivor. Here are five others likely to outlive us all. --By Belinda Luscombe...
...says the Lewis plan starts where the council leaves off, funding groups based on merit rather than need...
Finally, Penn weighed in with a strategy suited to its relatively small endowment. This plan strengthened an existing program which gave out merit based "preferential packages" to 100 outstanding and needy students...
Harvard will also not turn to merit-based scholarships like Penn's, they said. But these attempts to draw a small but reliable core of top students might be in the next wave of aid changes at other universities--particularly those with less ability...
...other schools the aid revolution continued.MIT dropped $1,000 from student self-helprequirements, and the University of Pennsylvaniastrengthened a system of merit-based "preferentialpackages" by eliminating loans for 100 outstandingstudents...