Word: meritably
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...from across the world, including its most troubled communities. Professionalizing knowledge concentrates the production and consumption of legitimate knowledge in the hands of fewer people. Strengthening alumni connections turns putatively meritorious students into social climbing graduates who climb as much, if not more, because of their connections as their merit. Plucking promising youth from troubled towns may advance a school’s prestige, but this individualistic approach does little to solve community problems as it propels those youth up the social ladder, rarely to return to their troubled communities...
...more surreal second. Perhaps, the one piece of decoration that falls flat is the series of framed silhouettes of horses surrounding a door. While horses are certainly a motif in the play, their role in the play’s message is not prominent enough to merit such a central placement of the prop in the set. As a result, the decoration’s presence tends to confuse audiences mulling the play’s symbolism rather than add to the action...
...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...