Yet that would still not solve the problem of the yawning gap between the established elite and the new arrivals.

But the high cost of delivering laboratory-based degrees in the 'hard sciences', and engineering in particular, makes it difficult for small or young universities to compete with the established elite.

She commissioned works by 26 composers, mostly far from the established elite, and picked another from an open submission.

Art became as established elite and modernist philosophy seeped into the institutionalized aspects of life that modernists had initially breaking from.

Many younger voters, on the left more than the right, chafe at the impermeability of established elites.