Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stigmitization to those who most merit our praise," said Eric M. Nelson '99, who is a Crimson editor...
Nowadays few undergraduates know much about mid-1960s curriculum changes, such as that intimate relation between the old merit-based financial aid system and the mid-1960s innovation that endures as "pass/fail," the rapid disappearance of courses in geography and physical anthropology or the demise of the mandatory five-course-a-term (with option for a sixth) requirement. Few undergraduates know that solid liberal arts schools once assumed that secondary-school seniors applied with a minimum of four years, and sometimes six or more years, of foreign-language study...
...1960s, public junior high schools, had to provide quality foreign-language (or Latin) instruction not only to give seniors a chance for acceptance at first-rate liberal arts institutions, but to enable them to do well enough in their first year and after to have a fair shot at merit-based financial aid (the higher the grade average, the more scholarship and the less loan and part-time-job requirement). Since early 1960s undergraduates had begun to think of spending a term or so abroad, public schools focused on more than learning to read a foreign language. They emphasized...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon professor of the civilization of France, was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit at a small-scale ceremony earlier this month...
...pleased to see good use of the teaching innovation fund--money designed for new projects, such as the rehabilitation of the History department tutorial program and a new course on identity politics within the Government Department, essentially an ethnic studies course. We are also glad to see merit-based grants in some departments helping to speed the rate at which graduate students in the arts and sciences finish their courses of study...