"Look to the left ..."

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 21 16:57:02 UTC 2011


Dean Landin's decision to eradicate the policy back in 1937 does not appear
to have dissuaded promulgation of the story--it is still being told /about/
Harvard, but not /at/ Harvard.

VS-)


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> Also from the fog: I think that I heard the story told in the 50s --
> at Columbia, of Harvard, by a Columbia administrator or
> professor.  Who went on to say that Columbia took better care of its
> freshman, and graduated a higher percentage of its entering class.
>
> Joel

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