11.   Melissa goes to Nauset Middle School, where she is in the honors program.

12.   One ribbon is maroon, earned for being in an honors program.

13.   Several state colleges competed to get the honors college on their campus, but Amherst was selected largely because of its strong honors program.

14.   She had already missed the deadline to apply for the honors program.

15.   The Green honors program could have been a greenhouse for preparing leaders for the cause of sound environmental management.

16.   The honors program helps to arrange that, too.

17.   They commuted together to the high school honors science program at State University at Stony Brook.

18.   They take one-third of their classes to gether in the honors program, and the remaining two-thirds on campus.

19.   This verdant rhapsodizing is occasioned by the controversy that erupted in Fort Worth recently over the Green honors program at Southwest High School.

20.   Trustees pledged funds for national recruiting, established new honors programs, and offered full scholarships to high school valedictorians.