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Nature 438, 561-562 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438561a; Published online 30 November 2005
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John Aubrey Douglass1
Abstract
The 'big three' universities in the United States are upholding a long tradition of élitism.
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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type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.0.7
