Word: meritably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Universities have not been able to increase their aid funds fast enough to keep them in balance with the rising student need. Private foundations have stopped funding programs like the National Merit Scholarships, which the Ford Foundation sponsored in the past, so that they can concentrate on research. State governments have generally assumed that the federal government will provide the necessary help; those that do have aid programs either do not fund them or require that students use the aid at state universities...
...culture as usual, and it is now imperative that the Administration understand that its intemperate and irresponsible policy has gone too far. If our elementary concepts of human decency merit us the bizarre label of idealists, then we must make the most of it. We must respond in the only way President Pusey seems to understand--in the pocketbook...
There is, of course, no reason why a program that a student wants to follow and that has academic merit should be disallowed simply because no department is particularly entranced by it. Students who are sufficiently convinced that their interests span the offerings of a number of departments should in fact be encouraged to draw up their own program of study. The student-authored programs might well be more coherent and better integrated than a program of courses selected simply to fulfill the requirements of a department...
...student's program couldn't be fit into any department, but was judged to have academic merit, Dean Ford or the CEP would set up an ad hoc Committee on degrees--effectively allowing the student to create his own major...
...became chief of the explosives division of the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, which produced the atom bomb. For this work he received the President's Medal for Merit...