Word: uppers
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Indeed, HASCS survey results said about one-third of students polled often use their roommates' computers. In addition, between 80 and 90 percent of upper-class students use their House labs from time to time, even though practically all of those polled have computers in their rooms...
Many of these moments emerged in their first piece, Haydn's Quartet in D Major, Opus 20. The second movement, Un poco adagio affectuoso brought a confluence of musical constraint and emotional effervescence. In giving the upper melody to the cello, the bass line to the viola and a flirtation of rising and falling scale passages to the first and second violins, Haydn's piece created a mood that the quartet conveyed as sad, thoughtful and full of wonder. While the fourth movement, Presto e scherzando presented a direct contrast--with its expulsions of happiness in the form of harmonic...
...that at the most elite educational center, you wouldn't have a lot of people working toward social and economic equality," says Rosslyn Wuchinich '99, a founding member of UNITE! and a member of Education For Action (E4A). "Much of Harvard's purpose is to reproduce a middle and upper class...
...Harvard] is a springboard into the upper class," says Morgan. "It becomes very hard to motivate against that...
Luce spent the next seven years ensconced in all-male, all-white, overwhelmingly Protestant institutions of the American upper class: first Hotchkiss, then Yale (where he joined that bastion of the Establishment, Skull and Bones). Luce was active in student journalism in both schools--and in the process formed an intimate relationship with Briton Hadden, the classmate, friend and frequent rival with whom he would found TIME. Having encountered America first as an abstraction, Luce encountered it after 1913 as a member of a self-proclaimed enlightened elite, among boys and young men trained from an early age to think...