Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what point in deciding an individual's qualifications do we sacrifice academic or professional merit to some much harder to quantify measure of diversity? Isn't it better to seek stricter and more comprehensive laws against discrimination of any kind than to focus so much attention on tipping the scales in a wholly vague and unsystematic fashion? I ask these questions here, in the forum of The Crimson, because they were not answered at the affirmative-action debate last week. I ask them because they need to be answered. --Eric A. Kurlander, GSAS
...Undergraduate Council approved the expenditure last night. But a large minority of members said that the Ivy Council does not give enough back to Harvard to merit its expense...
...Tree," it is thoroughly developed song, contrasting with the facet of G. Love's style that involves essentially a rap over a riff. Like Coast to Coast Motel's "Kiss and Tell," it may be a little cheesy to some listeners, but it definitely represents a musical direction with merit...
Adults in general merit some discredit, for always asking us what we wanted to be when we grow up--a terrible question, and if our entire generation would vow never to ask this question to anyone under 20 once we grow up, a new generation might someday be capable of self-satisfaction again. But the truth is that no one is really responsible for our obsession with "success"--tangible success, that is, the kind that comes with either a big public name or a large salary--other than ourselves...
Certainly the death penalty should not become a blanket punishment, but the people of Massachusetts can decide which crimes will be deemed heinous enough to merit this stiff punishment...