Word: centric
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard English department is still beset by a plague that infested the "academic" and "classical" traditions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution: Anglophilia as an easy measure of haute couture. Nineteenth-century old-world wealthy intellectuals differentiated themselves from nouveau riche with cultural Euro-centric distinctions; these distinctions were a strong reaction to an increasingly democratic America...
...last meeting, some professors said they thought an international relations certificate would have little meaning, while others greeted the Rhodes-like scholarship proposal with skepticism. Others said they were reluctant to have Harvard create a scholarship modeled after what they said was the "Anglo-centric vision" of the Rhodes model...