The internet is the means to 4 year, in situ education. If Harvard wants to ignore the SAT, or other academic performance standards, then it should provide any student with the opportunity to take two years of on-line courses anonymously and those who do well may matriculate to Harvard for the last 2 years. That way, Harvard cannot see who or what the student is and will only be looking at their work.
Academic pseudo-disciplines or anti-disciplines soak up real money from the real US taxpayers Harvard and the like despise. Talk about unsustainable! They are America's ingrown toenail. Meanwhile, their twisted grads act out their absorbed attitudes in the public and private sectors.
Then there's the irritating and arrogant "gender" speak where individuals are referred to with the "they/them" pronouns. This supposed top tier university cannot even get singular and plural right in simple composition.
It's confusing to find the allegedly plural antecedent of a "they" and to realize finally that the illiterate writer was talking about a single individual. When that happens, I stop reading.
The Amazon show "The Wheel of Time" started with one of those and I turned it off.
Yeah, pretty much. As a former high school English teacher, I can't help but experience this attempt to engineer humanity through language as fingernails on the (old slate) blackboard.
I think the introduction of the pronoun "usted" a few centuries ago may have created some confusion. But it's no way as confusing as what we see in English.
Remind me why a Harvard credential is valuable these days? Adam Smith always went by "Mr. Smith" because he disdained Doctorates that could be bought for the price of a fancy certificate.
Great encapsulation with the antisemitism in the Ivy League. Steve Bannon has it right. Freeze all federal funds to Harvard. Unfreeze them when and if Harvard sends home foreign students who displace Americans worthy of admission to Harvard, insist on firing woke professors . We need viewpoint diversity. Not racial diversity
The only problem with Harvard is that they let way too many Jews in. All the insane woke politics are downstream from this. If you have too many Jews in any institution it will cease to serve the public interest. Jewish morality is not compatible with American ideals.
On the plus side, your proposal would put an end to financial solicitations I seem to receive no less than quarterly, despite my unbroken 35-year record of contributing bupkis.
I graduated from Harvard College in 1972. As a boy who attended a working-class high school, I quickly became aware of things. The socially-adept private-school rich kids were obvious, as were the then-small number of affirmative action black kids. Senior year, a friend was shocked to learn that I wasn't jewish. He told me that Harvard, Yale and Princeton all had strict caps at 10% for jews -- can't have too many of them! At the time, the furor was things like taking over University Hall to protest the Vietnam war and lots of other things. Jews were active in such things.
One thing I remember vividly was someone saying to us that the revolution would change everything. Do you know what a person who works for the post office will be called after the revolution? A person-person! Lots of laughter.
It took Harvard decades to ramp up jew hatred, but it appears they've accomplished the goal
Most of our major "intellectual" and cultural institutions cannot be reformed. They must be replaced. Harvard is at the top of the list.
The internet is the means to 4 year, in situ education. If Harvard wants to ignore the SAT, or other academic performance standards, then it should provide any student with the opportunity to take two years of on-line courses anonymously and those who do well may matriculate to Harvard for the last 2 years. That way, Harvard cannot see who or what the student is and will only be looking at their work.
Academic pseudo-disciplines or anti-disciplines soak up real money from the real US taxpayers Harvard and the like despise. Talk about unsustainable! They are America's ingrown toenail. Meanwhile, their twisted grads act out their absorbed attitudes in the public and private sectors.
Then there's the irritating and arrogant "gender" speak where individuals are referred to with the "they/them" pronouns. This supposed top tier university cannot even get singular and plural right in simple composition.
It's confusing to find the allegedly plural antecedent of a "they" and to realize finally that the illiterate writer was talking about a single individual. When that happens, I stop reading.
The Amazon show "The Wheel of Time" started with one of those and I turned it off.
Yeah, pretty much. As a former high school English teacher, I can't help but experience this attempt to engineer humanity through language as fingernails on the (old slate) blackboard.
Do they pull the same tricks in Spanish? I noticed that Latinx crashed.
I think the introduction of the pronoun "usted" a few centuries ago may have created some confusion. But it's no way as confusing as what we see in English.
My last comment made no sense. Plow up the ground and then salt it.
Remind me why a Harvard credential is valuable these days? Adam Smith always went by "Mr. Smith" because he disdained Doctorates that could be bought for the price of a fancy certificate.
Easy, if the hiring manager is one of Them.
Great encapsulation with the antisemitism in the Ivy League. Steve Bannon has it right. Freeze all federal funds to Harvard. Unfreeze them when and if Harvard sends home foreign students who displace Americans worthy of admission to Harvard, insist on firing woke professors . We need viewpoint diversity. Not racial diversity
The only problem with Harvard is that they let way too many Jews in. All the insane woke politics are downstream from this. If you have too many Jews in any institution it will cease to serve the public interest. Jewish morality is not compatible with American ideals.
On the plus side, your proposal would put an end to financial solicitations I seem to receive no less than quarterly, despite my unbroken 35-year record of contributing bupkis.
I graduated from Harvard College in 1972. As a boy who attended a working-class high school, I quickly became aware of things. The socially-adept private-school rich kids were obvious, as were the then-small number of affirmative action black kids. Senior year, a friend was shocked to learn that I wasn't jewish. He told me that Harvard, Yale and Princeton all had strict caps at 10% for jews -- can't have too many of them! At the time, the furor was things like taking over University Hall to protest the Vietnam war and lots of other things. Jews were active in such things.
One thing I remember vividly was someone saying to us that the revolution would change everything. Do you know what a person who works for the post office will be called after the revolution? A person-person! Lots of laughter.
It took Harvard decades to ramp up jew hatred, but it appears they've accomplished the goal
Where does Veritas fit in?
umm, maybe better "Harvard[ium] expurgandum est." (yes, Of course I asked perplexity to help with this - it suggested purgari debet too..)
Salting the fields seems overkill - there is some good work being done at Harvard so maybe just the admin caste?
Plow up the ground and the salt it.