Word: meritable
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Despite the criticism that some groups have leveled at educational institutions that knowingly enroll illegal immigrants, Fitzsimmons defends the College’s policy of admitting undocumented students. He says that the College is more concerned with merit over circumstances when it admits applicants...
...easy when you’re starting on a 20-page essay two days past its deadline. Some people I’ve talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion of a particularly clause-rich sentence, seem to merit, according to the dominant irrational side of my mind, an entire hour’s worth of distractions. (Pick your poison: mp3 or avi.) Constant underestimation of how long a given paper will take has led to my foolhardy belief that any paper can be tackled in 24 hours. Mentally prepared to stay...
...race- and gender-conscious policy by a 45 to 39 vote, to the vehement opposition of some faculty members. Several months of intense debate and negotiations ensued between the Review and the faculty, at the end of which the Review began for the first time considering factors other than merit in choosing its members.AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONPrior to 1981, law students could join the Review either by being among the top five students in their first-year sections—each class used to be divided into four sections—or through a combination of their grades and their scores...
...again a strong force for Harvard in its annual battle versus Yale but was not enough for the Crimson to overcome its New Haven host and other Ivy rival Princeton, despite record-shattering performances by Scherf and Barrett. Scherf’s 17:03 finish proved only enough to merit second place, while Barrett’s first-place achievement and four other top-ten finishes were not enough to edge the competition. Scherf paced the Harvard women to a fourth-place finish with another second-place effort at the New England Championships. Barrett’s presence was again...
...that are officially known as the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), to go into effect next June. That decision sparked demonstrations in many Indian cities and towns. University faculty staged walkouts, students protested and public hospitals shut their doors to all but emergency cases. "Modern India should be built on merit, not caste," says Sudip Sen, a Ph.D student in biochemistry at the supercompetitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Officials say the fresh quota is necessary because the lower castes are still marginalized. But critics say the government is merely pandering to the OBCs because they're a big voting...