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...have been advised to require candidates to demonstrate knowledge The key itself of foreign languages and math as part of a strong liberal arts background. That has meant that Georgia Tech, because it mainly trains engineers, has never had a chapter. ΦBK guidelines also indicate that new members rank in the top tenth of their class, a standard that made Bryn Mawr refuse a chapter on grounds that all Bryn Mawr women are academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college...
...else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that it would damage the egalitarian ideal and hasten the evolution of sharp class lines. What none of the fearful saw was that, given...
...imagined that he could peg a person's status with only a few facts about the subject's clothes, schooling, job, neighborhood and car. The days when everybody enjoyed the habit of looking at all the artifacts of civilized existence as though they were primarily badges of rank. The days when elitist Middle Americans casually sneered at fellow citizens who lived in suburban split-level houses-which only a Rockefeller could afford today. Inflation is just one of the things that undermined the great status chase. The prior years of sustained prosperity contributed to the same end-giving...
Though reinstatement for the Ivy League is unlikely, because the schools which voted the schools out would have to vote them back in, the NCAA Division 1-A would be wise to return them to the game's top rank. Student-athletes everywhere deserve better than to see the abandonment of the tradition of sports as a supplement to education--not a substitute...
...overriding purpose of the Harvard Law Review should be to provide a forum for legal scholarship, not simply to recognize law students with the highest grade point averages, a function already fulfilled by class rank. The Review's selection process should take into account writing ability and diversity of perspective--not just academic success--in choosing its members. At the upcoming meeting, the editors of the Review should consider requiring each candidate to submit an essay or a review article that would illustrate the student's ability to make a distinctive contribution to the journal. This would allow editors...