Word: legacyism
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FM expands that definition to ask what legacy means in terms of the expectations that students carry with them when they arrive at Harvard.
In the narrow, college-admissions sense of the word, legacy means family history advantageously intertwined with one’s alma mater.
From the 12th generation at Harvard to the first-generation at any college at all, living with a legacy means having something to prove. The students profiled in the following pages each came to Harvard with a legacy of sorts: from an older sister’s shadow and a...
But how does legacy affect the choices they make once they get here?
This promise of limited immortality is what makes annotating books so appealing. When I was in elementary school, all the dirty words in the classroom dictionaries were double-underlined—the legacy of some tough kid who had flouted the rules; afterwards, writing in books struck me as a...