Word: jeffersonianism
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...first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less. He flouts their social codes, which he dismisses as the unpractical rigmarole of idealists who "think of nothing but marriage and death and the honor of Virginia...
...issue of Harper's reports in "The Future of Higher Education," by President James Bryant Conant, Harvard College has adopted a new scholarship device, occasioned by its recognition of the "Jeffersonian" element in American education. That great statesman proposed "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue" towards an "intellectual aristocracy" serving the Republic. This, as President Conant rightly contends, was democratic to the point of being revolutionary...
...speech opened and closed on the vein of the Jeffersonian ideal, "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue...
...which, in conflicts between tradition and modern methods, has thrown the balance in favor of rational thinking. Arnold's point is that there has been a delay in developing a symbol in the field of social science that enables rational thinking to break down the logictight compartments of a Jeffersonian Democrat...
...Manhattan Democratic organization which was badly beaten in the last New York City elections is (1 the Hibernians, 2 Union League, 3 Liberty League, 4 Jeffersonian Lodge, 5 Tammany...