Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During the Winter Games at Grenoble, he announced that a majority of the 72 member nations of the IOC had voted by mail to readmit South Africa, which was barred, because of apartheid, from the 1964 Tokyo Olympiad. Brundage said the Johannesburg government had taken adequate steps to merit the IOC's forgiveness...
Although in recent years no Ivy team has ever reached the NCAA finals, Columbia rates an outside chance on the merit of seven-footer Dave New mark and its great outside shooting. Princeton with Bill Bradley was the last Ivy team to reach even the NCAA quarter finals...
Financial aid funds for 1968 have also increased, Miss O'Connor said, partly to compensate for the National Merit Corporation's announced cut-backs in Scholarship awards. The increases will not affect the composition of next year's class, she added, although continued increased resources may make financial aid more available to middle-income applicants in the future...
Because of a reduction in a grant from the Ford Foundation, the National Merit Scholarship program will be phased out within two years, Peterson said. Sixtyfive of this year's freshmen hold National Merit Scholarships worth up to $6000, he said...
...Faculty grant will help take care of future Harvard students who might have received National Merit Scholarships under the previous plan, he said...