Penniless, he attended New York City College and finished first in his class.

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There was Lord Jenkins himself, then plain Woy, in possession of a first-class degree from Balliol College, Oxford, like his colleague Denis Healey.

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After attending Moses Brown, a prestigious Quaker school, on scholarship, Gallagher went to Oberlin College, where she took her first art class, in printmaking.

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Those who do not attend college are second-class citizens in a cultural sense first, and in an economic one only second.

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He is a member of the first generation of working-class Britons to have received a college education, which fostered in them a sense of possibility that was thwarted by the country's rigidly stratified class system.

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Their kids, my parents, like many immigrant children, were the first in their family to go to college, buy a house and live the good middle class life.

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The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.

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