why yale trumps harvard

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Byerly,</p>

<p>Please stop with all the fancy rhetoric because in the end, you've only managed to contradict yourself. In your most recent post, you said that "I'm all for peanut butter diversity at Harvard and elsewhere." If this was true, why would have posted earlier that "What matters is what the elite eat, and the elite eat Skippy Super Chunk."</p>

<p>Quote: ".........it will never be as good or as prestigeous as Skippy's Super Chunk - preferred far and away by America's elite."</p>

<p>Quote: "What matters is what the elite eat, and the elite eat Skippy Super Chunk. Its probably better for you to find this out now, in order to avoid disappointment: you're clearly not Harvard material."</p>

<p>The above quotes show that you’re implying that Harvard students are all elite, prestigious people who clearly prefer Skippy's Super Chunky P.B. This doesn't show your beliefs to be agreement with what you call "egalitarian Harvard environment" - another contradiction in your last post.</p>

<p>Byerly, you partially represent Harvard on cc - especially due to the fact that your such a prolific writer on the Harvard forum.</p>

<p>Do say something Byerly...I would hate to see the reputation of Harvard bow down to Yale on cc because our Harvard student's facetious nature is helpless to exclude contradiction.</p>

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<p>hahaha this thread is hilarious</p>

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<p>Consistency, eternity_hope, is the hobgoblin of small minds. A diverse environment means that various views are celebrated; even as one school could turn out a John Roberts and a Larry Tribe, so, too could those who prefer creamy peanut buttter .... or, indeed, do not like peanut butter at all (!) ... exist alongside the masters of the universe: the Skippy Super Chunk people.</p>

<p>What you must constantly remember is that everyone at Harvard is among the very best, the most talented, the smartest, about <em>something</em>. It keeps you humble. But on the other hand, you learn to have confidence in your own abilities and beliefs. If you do not have such confidence, you will not survive in the rarified atmosphere of Cambridge. And so it is with Skippy Super Chunk. </p>

<p>In a world where the mediocre often drives out the good, amid the decline of standards and the collapse of creeds, where peanut butter sales are increasingly dominated by the bland. creamy Jiffs, etc., there are those (well represented at Harvard, I sam proud to say), who hold to the core values of Western Civilization ..... and yes, I mean those who understand, appreciate and proclaim the ultimate superiority of Super Chunk.</p>

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<p>Byerly,</p>

<p>Once again, your logic is severely flawed.</p>

<p>MY EXPLANATION:</p>

<p>Don't ramble on about "consistency" with me when the word you should really be paying attention to is "evolution". What you need to understand with that "elite", Harvard mind of yours is that evolution even applies to the very topic of viscosity regarding the type of peanut butter being produced. </p>

<p>Peanut Butter, when initially made, couldn't be ground with the sharpest of razors - the machines were simply not as advanced as today - as a result of which the end consequence of the peanut butter was that of a tough, highly viscous material known as the Chunky Peanut Butter. </p>

<p>When I eat chunky peanut butter; I must force my teeth to sink through that tough, thick medium. It ends up being more of a work out for my jaw than an enjoyable and tasty food experience. The chunky peanut butter evolved to the creamy kind (thank heavens) since its discovery. Why has the Peanut Butter evolved? Evolution is a result of adaptation stemming from the beneficial sources of change itself. It is what makes something better suited in nature (in our example, taste) to its surroundings (in our case, the manufacturers). </p>

<p>Today, I can sit back and enjoy the taste of creamy Peanut Butter. I can even gulp the combination of P.B. and jelly packed into two slices of bread itself. The creamy P.B. is something my teeth can cut through with relative ease followed a quick "gulp" along with the bread and jelly leaving behind nothing less than a tasty aftermath - a far cry from cutting through the layers of the Chunky Peanut Butter which only leaves behind an overworked jaw and the ever increasing risk of cholesterol. And yes, creamy peanut butter is even healthier than chunky peanut butter. This of course is probably the result of a food oil switch within the recipe - further evolution a result of the hard work of people who attempted to cut down the cholesterol levels in the thick muck of butter.</p>

<p>Indeed, the evolution of the P.B. is - for the most part - the result of the mechanical engineers who devised better machine grinders and mixers so we can make that butter creamier and splice in the taste more efficiently with the other ingredients. </p>

<p>So go on and brag to me about your "elite" Harvard students who are the "best" because as far peanut butter is concerned, the typical mechanical engineer is someone who is clearly more deserving of respect than your "elite" Harvard student. </p>

<p>So for your own sake, drop the Peanut Butter analogy. Use something else to show those Yalies that Harvard is indeed better.</p>

<p>Do say something Byerly........</p>

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<p>Chunky PB gets stuck in between my teeth and is kind of a nuisance.</p>

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<p>just admit it, Harvard>>>Yale, or else Byerly will make you look like a fool</p>

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just admit it, Harvard>>>Yale, or else Byerly will make you look like a fool

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Great advice in the Yale forum. I'm also not really sure if anyone is really winning or losing, considering the topic itself is not so much Harvard v. Yale as it is...how to use peanut butter to prove people wrong, and effective peanut butter counter-points. It should also be noted Byerly was the one who started and helped in perpetuating the peanut butter-centric tone...I'm not sure if that counts as making the other posters "look like fools".</p>

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<p>Well Yalies may measure up in many ways, but if this thead is any guide, they are fairly conventional and timid when it comes to food in general and peanut butter in particular.</p>

<p>If young wingardiumlLeviosa want a successful career in investmwnt banking, he is going to have to learn to take prudent risks in order to achieve the greater reward. </p>

<p>My goal is certainly not to make anyone look foolish, but, in the spiritof the original post here, to indicate that there are still a few areas, unfortunately, where Yale does not "trump Harvard."</p>

<p>To be fair, I will readily concede that Yale <em>does</em> outdo Harvard in the number of a capella singing groups. I will further admit that I'm about as enthusiastic when it comes a capella singing groups as wingardiumLeviosa is about Super Chunk peanut butter. De gustibus non disputandem est!</p>

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<p>I hate to say it but all you Yalies are getting destroyed by Byerly. He took an inane peanut butter analogy and beat you over the head with it. Not only that, but you took him at face value and some of you (eternity) wrote hundreds of words TRYING TO OUT-LOGIC A PEANUT BUTTER ANALOGY. </p>

<p>That's quite pathetic. This thread is hilarious--Byerly being mock-elitist and the Yalies taking him seriously!</p>

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<p>Nobody ever succeeded in college or in life by standing on a mountain top and shouting, "My college is the greatest!! I go to it, hence I am better than everyone else!"</p>

<p>This type of attitude will simply not work. Every institution of higher education, even the most unknown community college, has produced exceptional, brilliant students. </p>

<p>Boasting about the merits of one's own school relative to others is simply immature and childish. Instead, let one's own accomplishments and actions speak for oneself.</p>

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<p>This thread is hilarious! And yet, sadly, I feel like the irony is lost on certain yalies present...</p>

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<p>Well said, HarvardAlum.</p>

<p>It's nice to see a reasonable human in the parade of trolls crowding around both sides of your post.</p>

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<p>HarvardAlum,</p>

<p>thanks God someone with common sense here!!!</p>

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<p>Ungh creamy peanut butter? Come on you need SOME substance going on in there.</p>

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<p>Well regardless of substance, we now know which school contains the greatest number of snobs</p>

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<p>I agree. How all these Yalies can look down their noses at Super Chunk just because it is not as "smooth" or "refined" is hard to understand. </p>

<p>They should think for themselves rather that let their tastes be decreed by others; be open to new things.</p>

<p>Perhaps it has something to do with Yale having the highest percentage of "preppies" in its student body of any school in the Ivy League. Hidebound traditionalists.</p>

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<p>haha this thread is amazing. You silly yalies never should have started it in the first place</p>

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<p>if you read the beginning of this thread keynes, you would see it was meant as a joke until eternity got all serious about an otherwise boring analogy. Things slow for you on the penn board? revisiting some sort of anti-yale sentiment that came with Harvard EA? What's really ironic is that Byerly, a graduate of Harvard's Class of 1962, made prospective yale applicants look stupid with a peanut butter analogy. That's right, a 65 year old poster took on a 17 year old poster and embarrased him/her. Go Byerly, he really won that battle.</p>

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<p>65 years old. They let senior citizens on this thing?</p>

<p>Huh.</p>

<p>You learn something new every day.</p>

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<p>You have been warned about the ad hominen attacks, bulldog. I suggest you delete your prior post.</p>