Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have, right here, one of the grossest examples of social distinction still active at the collegiate level. The final clubs, dating from the 1870s, have carved out a place for elitism beyond the norm even at Harvard. Santayana called the system "the secret society...to which everybody of consequence belonged...
This is obviously an extreme case. But on a more intimate level, we have an ongoing debate over "diversity" at the College, which is really simply a plea that Harvard students even in their houses make every genuine attempt to experience and understand each other across external divisions...
...immediately local level, answers have attimes been clear. Undergraduates have picketedalleged fake abortion clinics, confrontedOperation Rescue members at pregnancy centers andrallied support for state amendments securingabortion rights...
...some undergraduates said they believe it ismore important to devote their money--andenergy--to working on the state level...
More than one-fourth of all Native Americans live in poverty, Strickland said. Life expectancy is exceptionally low, he said, and suicide rates for Native American youths reach 10 to 100 times the level of youths in other groups...