Word: upper-class
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Dauber seems to think that arrogance and education are unique to boarding school history. Has he forgotten that at one time Harvard University was only for the wealthy, Protestant, white, upper-class Massachusetts elite? Indeed, for most of Harvard's history, from its founding through the the 1950s, the "spoiled teenagers from the suburbs" from Dauber's imaginary boarding school made up virtually all of Harvard's students...
...Albert S. Lee '98 said that it is more important for the council to work towards attainable goals. He wanted upper-class access to Annenberg Hall, universal key-card access and fewer representatives on the council...
Consequently, being the resourceful Harvard students that we are, we have applied these skills to the House situations. True, to a certain degree, sophomores and upper-class students have prevented conflict through avoidance by eating at different tables and passing each other silently in the hallways. Still others have taken a self-effacing approach by modifying their actions--turning down the volume of their stereo or ignoring the existence of loud carousing...
...sophomores, should disdain to conceal our views and aims. Our dominance can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let Drag Night never be the same again. Let the pre-med hotline never ring. Let the upper-class students tremble at a sophomore revolution. We have nothing to lose but our homogeneity. We have a university...
...black male from a lower socioeconomic background will approach the study of constitutional law in a different way from a white upper-class male," Reyes said...