Word: meritably
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Selection at the right tail--the central issue of the book--is fraught with difficulties and contradictions. What, first of all, ought to be the objective of selection? To say that universities ought to select the "best" possible students is nothing but a platitude. How should merit be defined? As Klitgaard points out, at universities today "merit" is not simply confined to academic merit as measured by grades and test scores. Leadership, motivation, and diversity of background and race are all among the criteria schools consider in selecting their members...
...about 77% of the initial prime contracts have gone to areas represented by eight Congressmen and 14 Senators. "At this rate," says Richard Garwin, a critic of SDI and a noted IBM physicist, "the program will soon have such momentum that there'll be no stopping it, regardless of merit." Says former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke: "What's happening is the rapid conversion of the President's Star Wars proposal from stardust and moonbeams to the great pork barrel...
...Only two women in the history of the Business School have been given tenure it's hard to believe that this could occur with a strictly merit based system," said Evan Lawson, Jackson's Jackson's lawyer for the case...
Although he said that the University "takes all these things seriously." Martin Michelson, a lawyer in the General Council's Office, said that Jackson's case "has little merit...
...animate the Students in the pursuit of literary merit and fame, and to excite in their breasts a noble spirit of emulation there shall be annually a public examination, in the preference of a joint committee of the Corporation and Overseers and such other gentlemen as may be inclined to attend it," a 1790 law reads...