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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.
One of the nice things about Lemann's story is the way it moves from Conant's lofty writings down to the gritty struggles of politics and campaigns, showing how the original idea--sorting people by scientific tests--was twisted by events.
The Big Test is worth reading for the superb section on Bryant and Conant.
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.
Furthermore, weren't Conant and Chauncey just undermining one system of social rank and replacing it with another, and possibly even more rigid, one?
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