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...attend a Dartmouth party in Leverett House. He will see thousands of allegedly hip weekend funseekers with nothing better to do than watch an endless *** of grunting crewbies row, row, row their boats gently down the river. He will see trashed teenagers wearing sweat-shirts advertising every college and prep school in the Western Hemisphere...
TREASURES OF ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY: 550 YEARS OF COLLECTING, the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. For the first time in the U.S., books, manuscripts, drawings and objects from the famous college (prep school, to Americans) that has been molding the English elite since 1440. Among the choice displays: the holograph of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), by onetime Eton schoolboy Thomas Gray. Through...
Jennifer shuttled by car service across New York City's Central Park between her divorced parents' apartments and traveled by chartered bus to a prep school where kids rated one another according to their family cars. "In the eighth grade I had panic attacks," says Jennifer, now 18. "That's when your stomach goes up and you can't leave the bathroom and you get sweaty and you get headaches and the world closes in on you." Her world eventually narrowed so far that for several weeks she could not set foot outside her home...
Many would object to me using as lofty and academic a term as classism to describe the slights I have received in my life. They would argue that greater tragedies have befallen humankind than some whiny prep school brat getting her feelings hurt, and they would most certainly be right. The upper class is definitely not a persecuted minority, and we do live in a society structured by class--a structure that admittedly has benefitted me. But discrimination on a personal or social level, be it against the political majority or minority, makes people flat agents for their particular group...
...that level is not necessarily acceptable when it is translated into offensive behavior. Men and women are capable of recognizing and resolving their most instinctive reactions, and functioning on a level that is decent, fair and just. Discrimination rooted in those resentments is odious and indefensible. Even against whiny prep school brats...