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<p>kiwi, can you please explain? thats really cool!</p>

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<p>It mentioned it in an alumni letter recently, so I looked it up. I found:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/pedagogy/communiv.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/pedagogy/communiv.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Specifically, </p>

<p>"In September 1922, Dartmouth’s President Hopkins called for an 'aristocracy of brains.” Calling college attendance a privilege, not a right, Hopkins said “’It would be incompatible with all the conceptions of democracy to assume that the privilege of higher education should be restricted to any class defined by the accident of birth or by the fortuitous circumstance of possession of wealth, but there is such a thing as an aristocracy of brains…'"</p>

<p>and</p>

<p>"When I got done, Mr. Streeter leaned over and said very seriously and without the slightest intention of being humorous, 'Mr. President, do I understand rightly that you seriously proposed sometime in the future to decline the application of somebody who really want to enter Dartmouth?'"</p>

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<p>Its so funny how much things have changed since then.</p>