Word: upper-class
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Although first-year candidates have plastered Harvard Yard with campaign posters promising everything from cable TV for all first-years to lower course book prices, many upper-class students said they have heard little about the vote...
Ware said he believed upper-class students may have been spared the moratorium on cigarettes and halogen lamps so far because of "custom and tradition," which have always allowed older students to have them...
According to Ward, the idea of Harvard's insularity was forever shattered by the ensuing police brutality as middle-and upper-class students from privileged backgrounds who never realized this could happen to them received what graduates describe as a "wake-up call...
...attempt to fight the polarization that had supposedly taken over the College and to increase the diversity within the campus, the administration decided that upper-class housing would no longer be a matter of (even mitigated) choice. However, with the distance a year provides and with the results so far discernible from randomized housing, we can conclude that the experiment is not headed for success...
Today, in the upper-class dining halls, most students don't indulge in intellectual debates about philosophy, classics or even current political situations. But I cannot say that I always mourn this change. Nowadays, dinner brings with it a certain sense of comfort, filled instead with down-to-earth conversations about classes and television shows. Does this mean that the mythical intellectual Harvard is dead...