Word: meriting
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...temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...
...temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...
...useless process took so long. Seminars and conference courses demand limited enrollment, and people have to be turned down. And to be fair, the college has recently expanded the freshman seminar program. Worse than the school itself are the student organizations that imitate Harvard’s arrogant, supposedly merit-based approach...
...Harvard College Handbook requires that student groups have clear criteria for admission. This has led to the Hasty Pudding Club’s recent contortions to become “merit-based.” More seriously, it’s led to the notoriously haughty induction process at some of Harvard’s student organizations. At the Crimson, potential execs have to face an annual torture called “The Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze...
...Roots and Black Eyed Peas show. I didn’t do much, but I went to meetings and helped out on the day of the concert. To remain an official organization and keep receiving Harvard funding, the group, needing clear criteria for admittance, became “merit-based,” making applicants and supplicants alike fill out an questionnaire (I think would-be new members had to go to an interview too). It wasn’t a big deal, and the heads of the commission were friendly about it, assuring veterans that it was just...