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Some mirror the College in considering only need in calculating aid packages, while other schools facing more intense recruitment pressures—GSAS, for example—offer scholarships and grants based entirely on merit, designed to woo the best students to Harvard...
...presented the Bundesverdienst-kreuz, or Cross of the Order of Merit, to Abigail Collins, an associate director of the de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES); and to Christoph Wolff, Mason Professor of Music...
According to the Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in Arts and Sciences, “B+, B and B- represent work of good quality which, however, does not merit special recognition.” When there is comparison among students, then there will be competition. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a fact. Many people insist that grade inflation is a fair way to get around the problem of comparing so many strong students. The quality of the work is so high across the board, they say, that everyone should receive...
...activist, I would probably be writing essays. Not that I haven’t had times when I’ve been moved to activism. During the Gulf War, I was part of a contingent that blockaded recruitment centers, because I thought it was a war without merit, a travesty. I feel like there are a lot of options besides going to war, and it seems that we don’t explore those options. We’ve spent lots of money on the military, so why not use it? Well, that seems the least intelligent response, just...
...twenty other “coolest girls in America” range from dirt track racers to heavy weight junior champions to prima ballerinas. When asked whether those girls merited being labeled as the coolest girls in the country, Madeleine responded, “I didn’t merit being one of the coolest girls in America. It’s an absurd proposition in the first place...