Word: meritable
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...possibly competing against perennial powers Penn and Harvard in the Ancient Eight.Moxon, with no plans of playing football after high school, had applied to Brown on his own and was accepted under regular admission. And even more impressively, he was awarded the Ivy League’s first-ever merit-based academic scholarship, which will cover his full financial need...
...often. Summers came to the door, and Rubin stood up very swiftly and said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, the Treasury Undersecretary of the United States.’ Larry blushed, and Rubin said, “Larry thinks we should do this more on merit and less on title...
Larry Summers has learned a lot in the past few weeks about the problem of judgment on the basis of identity over merit. On the one hand, his critics are concerned that he is encouraging society to evaluate women based on their gender and not on their intellectual aptitudes. And on the other hand, Summers himself has been judged, at least in part, not on the value of what it was he actually said at that now-infamous National Bureau of Economic Research conference (in point of fact we didn’t even find out the content...
...These merit scholarships are a great way to fill in the gaps,” Kaplan says, noting that merit scholarships apply not only to academic excellence, but also to achievement in art, music and other extracurriculars...
...football team is ashamed. I hope so anyway. I replay this incident in my big, giant head, and I’m baffled. What is it within you that pushes you to act with such hostility in response to actions of pure amity? Does an act of good will merit such response...