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...Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues both politically unfeasible and morally unjustifiable. Since then, we have witnessed a kind of moral dispersion. We now value excellence but don’t know what to be excellent...
...Flexer says the technology's greatest bang for the buck may come during early childhood when reading skills and phonics are introduced. "Without the even distribution of sound in the room from these systems, it can be hard for children to hear the difference between watch or wash or wasp," says Flexer. Her small but influential 2002 study published in the Hearing Journal found that 78% of preschoolers and kindergartners in sound-amplified classrooms scored above the mean on a key prereading skills test, compared with just 17% in a comparable group without the technology...
...Robert Frost: “To me, Frost is the ultimate American WASP voice...
...slavery. But they were also fascinated with the rainbow of faces they saw on campus. “How can there be so many different races here,” one student asked. She said people back home had warned her about “that thing called wasp.” These students grasped the power and the paradox of American history...
...counters that "being put off by Daniel's tolerance sounds like the opposite of Christianity." He picked an Episcopal priest, he says, because like Catholic clergy, "they have all that pageantry and mystery and wonder--but they can get married." Kenny was also intrigued by the particular country-club Wasp culture that he was introduced to through his Episcopal life partner of almost 24 years. (Yes, that would be a male partner, and no, that isn't helping Daniel among conservatives either. An AFA protest letter slams the show as being written by a "practicing homosexual...