<p>You know, blue and white? Yale's school colors?</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Just wanted to share. All we need is an image of a bulldog, now...</p>
<p>haha -- keen observation :)</p>
<p>I got a postcard from the University of New Haven last week. On it was a guy wearing a sports jacket with a big Y and a bulldog on it. I was very confused.</p>
<p>lol aww maybe that was the point- to confuse you into getting excited and applying to U of New Haven by accident. <em>sigh</em> but really, poor them...always in a HUGE shadow.</p>
<p>Yale is a still very fine school, even if it only ranks #3 or #4. I wouldn't let the rankings deter you.</p>
<p>Its all relative, however...</p>
<p>"Its" should be "it's." </p>
<p>Sad, really, that everyone can't have the advantages of a Yale education. ;)</p>
<p>True. For most, a Yale education would be a very nice consolation prize, indeed.</p>
<p>So what do you have to say about Princeton, Bylerly? since they share the #1 ranking.</p>
<p>"There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fancied superiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves."</p>
<pre><code> --Herman Melville
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<p>Princeton is also a very fine school, even if their football team has lost to Harvard's for the last nine years in a row, whereas Yale's team has only lost to Harvard for the last four years in a row.</p>
<p>Obviously, CC has good taste in colleges! Seriously, though, I think blue and white are good colors for CC because they have appeal and are easier to look at than bright red, orange, etc. Don't be jealous, Byerly. Consolation prize, indeed! </p>
<p>Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. -Mme. de Puixieux</p>
<p>The guy had an educational inferiority complex that made him touchy about these things. When his father becamr insane and died, Herman's formal education ended. Fortunately for him, he was able to turn to a life of genteel writing when he married the daughter of the wealthy Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of Massachusetts and a prominent Harvard graduate, (Class of 1800).</p>
<p>"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."</p>
<p>-- Herman Melville</p>
<p>"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."</p>
<p>--Marcus Tullius Cicero</p>
<p>I love this! Quote-duels.
Ahh we fight so intelligently :D</p>
<p>Cicero didn't have a college education, either. Another transparent rationalization!</p>
<p>Yes, those ignorant Romans:</p>
<p>"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."</p>
<p>--Livy</p>
<p>And of course Alexander Pope didn't go to college either:</p>
<p>"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading een fools, by flatterers besieged,
And so obliging, that he neer obliged;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause."</p>
<p>"Q: What does a Harvard student have in common with a Yale student?</p>
<p>A: They both got into Yale.</p>
<p>Q: How many Yale students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?</p>
<p>A: None. New Haven looks better in the dark.</p>
<p>Q: What do Yale women and hockey players have in common?</p>
<p>A: They both shower once every three periods.</p>
<p>Q: How do you get a Yalie off your front porch?</p>
<p>A: Pay him for the pizza.</p>
<p>It was the day of The Game. A Yale man and a Harvard man were in the bathroom. When they both finished, the Harvard man walked out of the bathroom as the Yale guy washed his hands.</p>
<p>The Yalie said, "At Yale, they teach us to wash our hands."</p>
<p>The Harvard guy responded, "At Harvard, they teach us not to **** on our hands."</p>
<p>And then of course there's the classic Yale jokeyou know, the one about them being "almost as good" as us. "</p>
<p>"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster a highly ornamental pot. As people mature, they cease to believe in sides or in Headmasters or in highly ornamental pots."</p>
<p>--Virginia Woolf (yet another intellectual lightweight who never went to school)</p>
<p>Virginia Woolf was educated privately by her father - a prominent Oxonian - primarily because she was unstable and prone to suicide attempts ... or perhaps it was the other way around.</p>