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Skull & Bones to Skill & Brains..

Via a friend and colleague in the program, Alan Brinkley examines the demise of the old-boy-network in Ivy League admissions for The New Republic.

Author KcMPosted on June 10, 2004April 26, 2013Categories Arts and Letters, History, Ivory Tower, TNRTags Alan Brinkley, Columbia, Harvard, Ivory Tower, Meritocracy, Old Boy Network, Princeton, TNR, Yale

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