Word: upper-class
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Requiring upper-class scholarship students to make up more than half their expected cost increase would "conflict with the understanding they had of the scholarship program when they elected to come here," Peterson said. "Therefore." he said, "if our budget request cannot be met . . . . . we would be forced to make a marked reduction in the number of scholarship holders in [the incoming] class...
...Advanced Standing can by himself drastically reinterpret the office's regulations. Harnett's action is certainly disfunctional to those trying to create an atmosphere of genuine student-Faculty-administration cooperation and consultation. Harnett did not ask the Faculty to debate his reinterpretation. And obviously, Harnett did not take upper-class Advanced Standing students into consideration, many of whom agreed to sign the Advanced Standing contract two or more years ago, with a very different idea of what was expected of them...
...small upper-class group features Mike Koerner, Bob Seals, Tom Spengler, and Howie Foye. Seals and Koerner, both juniors, are likely to be the team's top performers if they stay healthy. Both came to Groton in good condition and have continued to develop. Seals, however, has had some knee trouble, and Koerner, who broke Dave Pottetti's golf course record at the camp, is now bothered by a foot injury. At the moment, though, neither injury appears to be serious, and on the whole, the team had little trouble with injuries at Groton...
...literature at least, it is a blessing that the British Labor Party has not yet succeeded in doing away with that bastion of upper-class pain and privilege, the British public school. From Thomas Hughes to Kipling and Orwell, from Harold Nicolson to Robert Graves and Anthony Powell, a succession of British men of letters have devastatingly recollected in tranquillity the fagging and the field sports, the pleasures of playing up and the dark night of a sensitive soul fallen among rugger-bugger philistines...
...among many middle-and upper-class Americans that the estrangement of the young is strongest, but the influence of children on parents is also most evident. Parents who lose control of their children are usually confused about their own values and identities. Lacking authority, such parents cannot provide the key ingredient of growing up: a loving force to rebel against. Psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch believes that many parents themselves are still emotional adolescents, and it is evident not only in their adoption of youthful dress and fads but in a lack of inner maturity as well: "In giving their children freedom...