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Harvard pre-Meds say that new merit-based scholarships have significantly increased their chances of choosing to attend the University of Pennsylvania Medical School...
Harvard Medical School administrators did not return calls yesterday, but Harvard has no existing merit-based scholarships, according to the financial aid office...
...rationale for special treatments for certain minority groups remains solid. For centuries mainstream America either condoned or ignored prejudice against Blacks, and poverty and discrimination prevented many Blacks from performing well on the usual measures of merit. As a result, anti-discrimination laws that allowed Blacks to compete on the basis of merit for jobs or for places in universities did little to improve Blacks' socioeconomic status. Latinos have faced similar barriers...
...just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...
President Neil L. Rudenstine expressed concernlast September at the dearth of Black students inthe Class of 1996 and suggested that moreaggressive measures including merit-based,minority scholarships may be needed to boostmatriculation rates