<p>There are Duke & Cornell trolls? I haven't seen any.</p>
<p>Just go to the Cornell forum (there's ten database pages - go to the third page) and look at the two locked threads. You'll see more of them than you'd like.</p>
<p>No need to lower yourself with name calling Epoch_Dreams or violence wingardium. I am sorry for your sour experiences with cornell and duke trolls. I think that my post brings up a point about the oddity and motivations of certain trolls who can muddle threads like those in the cornell forum. If you don't agree that I raise a point about what goes on here when threads get derailed, then fine. There are many adult posters on these boards, like alummother for instance, who see no need to destroy threads and put down younger posters.<br>
Then, there are others.</p>
<p>Such, for example, yourself, eh?</p>
<p>Crimson, are you an alumni or a current student at Yale?</p>
<p>Alumnus .</p>
<p>Way to out him Byerly!</p>
<p>an alumnus of both harvard and yale, though both degrees conferred after 2000. I don't make a habit, unlike other harvard alumns, of beating up on younger posters however.</p>
<p>I don't consider it "beating up," Crimsonbulldog. As a frequent critic of Byerly's arguments, I don't think he "beats me up." I may be an incoming college freshman, but I can hold my own.</p>
<p>though on post 49, you did applaud him for doing so</p>
<p>Zepher is no wimp. Wrong-headed, sometimes, but no wimp! And at his age it should hardly be surprising that he still has a few things to learn. To his credit, he is willing to do so.</p>
<p>Of course he has more perspective than usual in this thread, since so many of thye other posters are the usual Harvard-obsessed Yalies, and he is not one of them.</p>
<p>/me gasps .</p>
<p>You're right, Crimsonbulldog, Byerly certainly won the central argument in this thread (about the peanut butter and whatnot). But I didn't really debate him this time as I'm not personally invested in Harvard versus Yale. </p>
<p>Wrong-headedness, in this case, is certainly a subjective description and I'll take it as such. I appreciate the mutual respect Byerly, which goes both ways.</p>
<p>Hey zephyr, pull your nose out of Byerly's ass.</p>
<p>Ouch dude. </p>
<p>I don't think you've bothered to read anything I've typed, but I've spent enough time picking apart his ridiculous statements to make your statement spectacularly inane. I'm not brown-nosing the guy in any way, so let's be sane, now shall we?</p>
<p>I merely recognize an argument's winner when there is one. Many times I've done my best to correct Byerly and show him the true light of lessening Harvard dominance, although that was probably a hopeless task.</p>
<p>A hopeless and impossible task, zepher, as you correctly recognize, since the Colossus on the Charles arguably dominates higher education in America to a greater degree now than it has at any time since the 17th century.</p>
<p>Not for long, Byerly. </p>
<p>You just wait and see.</p>
<p>LOL! Your information is a bit dated! If I were you I'd check the 2006 grad rankings rather than relying on the 2002 rankings. HBS #1, HMS #1, HSE #1, HLS #2 ..... in each case, higher than Stanford. Only Harvard's tiny engineering program (270 students) trails Stanford's (3,200 students).</p>
<p>It's not so much the rankings but the insecurity that it generated that I'm interested in. </p>
<p>"Moreover, Harvard can only attempt to delay a possible westward shift. Even if the university fully invests in technology, even if Harvard were to merge with MIT (yes, it has been proposed in the past), this only buys time. Technology will inevitably flow to newer, cheaper places and markets. People will inevitably move to locations that, all else equal, have milder weather. Harvard alone cannot reverse such strong trends.</p>
<p>In 50 years, Stanford may no longer be known as the Harvard of the West. Rather, we may become the Stanford of the East. Until then, a few of us will guiltily pray before John Harvard's statue that another California energy crisis will force the technology and innovation back to the old East."</p>
<p>That sounds pretty insecure. From one of your own, Byerly!</p>
<p>I don't even want to get into the grad school question now, but USNEWS again is worrisome-ly inaccurate. JHU is better for med, Wharton better for business, Stanford for education. Enough said.</p>
<p>That's odd: </p>
<p>first you proudly cite USNews to support your thesis, but then when you learn that your citation was outdated, and that later rankings undercut your thesis, you do a flip-flop and mutter that "USNEWS is worrisome-ly inaccurate"!!!</p>
<p>Which one of your posts are we supposed to believe?</p>