Word: meriting
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Overseer Peter Wood '64, who was elected to the Board on a pro-divestment slate, also cautions against moving too fast to reinvest in South Africa. He says Americans are too prone to invest minor reform there with more importance than they merit...
Major Initiatives in the Bush Education Budget proposed for the fiscal year 1991 .Research, statistics and assessment of education $122million .Math and science education $230million .Drug education and abuse prevention programs $593million .Presidential Merit Schools and Magnet Schools of Excellence $325million .Alternative certification programs $25million .Awards for Excellence in education $7.6million .Endowment grants for historically Black colleges and universities $15million .National Science Scholarship program $5million .Bilingual education $31million .Programs to combat adult illiteracy $226million .Grants for educating the handicapped $1.9million .Chapter 1 grants for disadvantaged children $5million Total request by the Bush Administration $24.6million
...second justification is even more flimsy. President Derek C. Bok says that legacy admissions foster a sense of "continuity" among alumni. That goal might be appropriate if Harvard were a WASP country club. But Harvard is a liberal university, whose admissions office ought to concern itself with recognizing merit and tapping potential, not doling out hereditary privileges...
Every debate at Harvard must pay homage to a "politically correct" (PC) ideology. Just the expression should strike fear in the heart of free thinkers. The mere idea--even if half in jest--that there is a correct, defined political agenda that determines a person's merit is abhorrent...
...Goldsmith said he believes in the merit of the new telescope and that it would help keep the United States competitive with large telescopes in Europe and Japan...