NY Observer on "Yalien" Invasion of NYC

[natsherman]

<p>Fun article on Yalies post graduation:</p>

<p>The</a> Yaliens Among Us | The New York Observer</p>

<p>One key passage I am sure you all will agree with:</p>

<p>“They’re all exceptionally nice—Harvard people are not usually that nice,” said Ira Stoll, the Harvard ’94 grad who hired many Yale students as interns when he was editor of The New York Sun. “I have one Yale friend who’s always bringing homemade cookies here to my house. Another one went out of his way to buy a lot of copies of my Samuel Adams book. If a Harvard person did that, you’d think it was because they wanted something from you. But, the Yale people—it’s like, they’re a little earnest.”</p>

[wjb]

<p>I really enjoyed reading that piece. Thanks, natsherman. The distinctions the author, a Harvard grad, draws between H and Y neither glorify nor disparage either school, but from my vantage point (which is admittedly removed) they do ring true. A quote (this one from a Yale grad, I think) about the nature of competition at the two schools:</p>

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"Yalies compete with each other by trying to do more interesting and creative and unusual things, whereas Harvard people try to compete with each other in a more conventional way, by getting farther, faster in their careers,” said Mr. Weisberg. “Harvard people try to be more, and Yale people try to be different. The way to impress your Yale coterie is not to make partner at an early age or to run something at an early age—it’s sort of to invent a job or just do something really cool and hopefully socially conscious.”

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[JHS]

<p>I love the brief course in Ivy-ology supplement. The one-liners are pretty great. Dartmouth: " Unironic lovers of hiking, in North Face jackets stained with Keystone Light."</p>

[Marsden]

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“Brooklyn’s where Yale graduates belong; Washington is more where Harvard graduates belong.” Harvard, though it sends many graduates to New York—hello! this reporter among them—does not have the same relationship with New York as Yale—in part for the simple reason that it is much further away (four and a half hours by bus from Boston; one hour and 45 minutes by Metro-North from New Haven).

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<p>Interesting. Where does that leave Princeton? Insofar as P is closer to NYC than Y is. But you do get a sense, now and then, that Y’s own NY a bit. I definitely agree that Brooklyn is more likely to have Y’s than H’s. Sort of a counter-culture thing, as the article says. </p>

<p>Irony and Dartmouth, now that’s a good one. If I’d been asked, on which Ivy campus does Irony least hold sway, I’d probably have guessed D, or maybe Cornell.</p>