Word: egalitarian
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...over "diversity" at the University. What exactly are the social or intellectual benefits of diversity--and of what kind of diversity? (Of opinions? ethnic background? experience?) Additionally, Choi raises an issue that continues to occupy all modern democracies: the proper balance between the necessary cultivation of elites and the egalitarian ground tenor of democracy. (Choi comes down squarely on the side of the elites, or the "few best souls," as he calls them...
Ousley had joined the army in the fall of 1944 and was shipped off to the Pacific. When he returned to school in the fall of 1946, he says he noticed an immediate difference in the social atmosphere around campus. Apparently, some of the more egalitarian military experience had rubbed off on the veterans...
...1960s, America's legacy of white supremacy is still palpable--for example, neighborhoods in this country remain overwhelmingly segregated by race. However, this more nuanced perspective on race relations often makes some people at Harvard surprisingly uncomfortable, especially when it is injected into a discussion about the egalitarian triumphs of our nation...
...students who aren't members, these clubs--with expensive monthly dues, ritzy parties and beautifully decorated clubhouses--seem both an expression of Harvard's wealth and a direct contradiction to the egalitarian and meritocratic values espoused in academic and extracurricular spheres...
...communist utopia, but I don't think there's huge gaping class differences, huge problems over class," Weld says. "I think Harvard, like the Vatican, is an organization that tends to think long term, and since it seems clear that it has decided it wants a more egalitarian, diverse student body it's probably going to get it sooner or later. It's pretty close...