Different class

John Aubrey Douglass¹

BOOK REVIEWED-The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admissions and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

by Jerome Karabel
Houghton Mifflin: 2005. 672 pp. $28

In the decades after the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth century, many of the fledgling nation's political leaders envisaged a collection of colleges and universities as central agents of maturation for those born in the glow of the Enlightenment. In a society dominated politically by farmers, shopkeepers and artisans, the concept of the university as a source of intellectual development, civic leadership and socioeconomic mobility contrasted strongly with the stifling class inbreeding of the major European powers.

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