I was thinking that too. Those poor diddumses! Next thing you know they'll have to do their own laundry.
Harvard's demise might be a sobering economic indicator, but I wonder if there'd be many who actually mourned its passing? To me it's nothing but a old boy's club filled with entitled trust fund brats, and the only real benefit of going there is that you then get hired by the previous generation of intolerable WASP twats. And members of this little club seem to have made an outsize contribution to the ills of wall street, law, government and the current crisis.
I respect Harvard; they do great work. I think the world would significantly miss it if Harvard, it's really hard to respond to such a poor argument, but the medical school alone is a world changing institution.
Well, looks like their PR department does great work, indeed. But it's not just their token medical school - I think their business school and law departments have also been "world changing institutions", just maybe not in a positive way.
Anyway this idea of having elite schools for an elite class is dangerous. Just look at the list below. Nepotism and class segregation by proxy, that's all Harvard is. Oh lookie, there's Obama! He went to Harvard, replacing GWB, who - surprise - went to Harvard. And the CEO of Goldman Sachs, who replaced the old CEO who also went to Harvard! What a coincidence.
Make no mistake. Harvard is "The Man" writ in bricks and stone. I am not very much a fan of The Man, which is why I am not unhappy to see The Man in trouble financially. But no worries, if things really get bad I'm sure a bailout's on the way.
Do you not consider it possible that Harvard selects intelligent, talented applicants likely to succeed, and that a few of them do go on to succeed? Why do you assume there is some upper class conspiracy?
Edit: I'd love to understand why this comment was downvoted - I can't see what's wrong with it.
The undergraduate population often sound like a bunch of snots, which .. they probably are by and large. But that's true at every university. Rare indeed is the undergraduate who actually has something worthwhile to say. As a grad school and research institution though, Harvard rocks. Every single department has one or more faculty who are at the top of their respective field. Think about that statement, it's pretty amazing.
Harvard's demise might be a sobering economic indicator, but I wonder if there'd be many who actually mourned its passing? To me it's nothing but a old boy's club filled with entitled trust fund brats, and the only real benefit of going there is that you then get hired by the previous generation of intolerable WASP twats. And members of this little club seem to have made an outsize contribution to the ills of wall street, law, government and the current crisis.
Who respects Harvard? Who'd miss it? Not I.