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...Membership is definitely not purely based on merit. It's a social club," says Murphy, a North House resident and Pegasus on the Advocate. He says social elements make up "40 percent" of the election process...
...Signet has merit-based selection, not one based on distinction or wealth," says Epps, the Harvard administrator charged with overseeing official student organizations...
...group of dissatisfied final club members started the Signet in 1870, when some juniors became fed up with the traditional social strata on campus and decided to form a new organization with a membership based on "merit and character," according to a piece written by member Nathan C. Shiverick '52 on the Society's centennial. Now 116 years old, the Signet is located in yellow cottage at 46 Dunster Street, a building it bought from the AD Club...
...international human rights group. The visitors are pleading for the release of an imprisoned poet who had served the former right-wing regime as its Ambassador to Spain. The air is abuzz with debate about the competing political and aesthetic duties of the writer, the distinction between artistic merit and moral virtue and the uneasy relations between the industrial nations and the emerging Third World, where freedom and tolerance are often viewed as unaffordable luxuries...
Last year the school also lured 121 National Merit Scholars with $5,000 annual aid packages and spent an average of $1,000 each in recruiting other students. Since 1981, average SAT scores have risen from 1095 to 1200, and the student body has been cut to 2,759. "Colleges should expect a higher quality of work," says Calgaard, "and if they don't get it they simply shouldn't pass the student...