Example sentences for: conant

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

  • While telling us about Conant and Chauncey, Lemann keeps reminding us about the fundamental issues at stake and the central problems inherent in a meritocracy.

  • Conant and Chauncey truly wanted to create an elite based on merit, and in doing so were reducing the opportunities of people of their own class and background.

  • 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.

  • Like Conant, Chauncey was a member of the Protestant Establishment, a graduate of Groton and Harvard, a man from Puritan stock.

  • Conant was alarmed by the thought that America might be developing a hereditary aristocracy.


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