Word: egalitarian
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...rush to diversify the houses for egalitarian purposes, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Associate Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 decided that every Harvard house must be different only in name and architecture...
Finally, it is important to realize that the purchase of the kosher toaster was legitimate even on secular, egalitarian grounds. Jewish students pay the same amount for their food as everyone else; one toaster oven and a little bit of kosher food will not even begin to compensate them for the amount of money they waste each year eating tuna fish in the dining hall...
...activity at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) as Harvard students frantically prepare their bodies for the transition from libraries and lecture halls to sea shores and swimming polls. Yet with each new face I see at the MAC these days, I grow ever more disdainful of Harvard's egalitarian approach to physical fitness...
...egalitarian conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard," says Marvin Bressler, professor of sociology and education specialist at Princeton University. True, not all U.S. collegians can match the performance of their foreign counterparts, but American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential. "America educates so many more people at university that one can't expect all those who go to be either as well informed or intelligent as the much narrower band who go to English universities...
...Eliot House didn't exist, some people would have to invent it" as a concept, he says. For critics of Eliot House, "it was a way to establish your own egalitarian legitimacy even though...once you got into Harvard you are no longer in an egalitarian setting...