Example sentences for: chauncey

How can you use “chauncey” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Furthermore, weren't Conant and Chauncey just undermining one system of social rank and replacing it with another, and possibly even more rigid, one?

  • Lemann also makes it clear that the current meritocratic system is far more egalitarian than its intellectual founders, Chauncey and Conant, intended.

  • James Bryant Conant and Henry Chauncey play key roles, and clearly the effect of the shift to an exam like the SAT is to make it possible for those with fewer social advantages and who have not attended high-status prep schools to successfully compete for places like Harvard if they are academically able.

  • The pundits' appreciation of Reno's idiot savancy stopped short of direct comparisons to Forrest Gump or Chauncey Gardener.

  • Lemann identifies two key players, James Bryant Conant, the president of Harvard, and Henry Chauncey, a Harvard administrator who went on to become the head the Educational Testing Service.


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