ABSTRACT
The growth and structure of this national upper class has, in turn, been supported by various institutions. First and most important, of course, are the New England boarding schools and the fashionable Eastern universities. Whereas the older generation of Proper Philadelphians were educated at home or in local schools and colleges, at the turn of the century, and especially after the First World War, these national upper-class family-surrogates began to educate the children of the rich and well-born from all cities in ever-increasing numbers. First, Philadelphia has been going through a cultural, civic, and political renaissance since the close of the Second World War. Both men had distinguished war records; Dilworth with the Marine Corps at Guadalcanal and Clark with the United States Air Force in the Far East. In this young nation, an ancient mansion of democracy, the stairway of social prestige has been "forever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, and the polished boot descending.".
