<p>Alright just let this thread die out. It's so stupid. Yale and Harvard are on par with each other and no one school is better than the other. We'll leave it at that.</p>
<p>Enough of this nonsense.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with a little "nonsense", eternity; lighten up and stop taking yourself so seriously.</p>
<p>Penn fudged its founding date (and much of its association with Ben Franklin) too. They say 1740 but it was acutally around 1749 that it got going.</p>
<p>JohnnyK- at least they didn't celebrate their 250th anniversary 20 years after their 200th!</p>
<p>I'm looking at you <em>Columbia!!</em></p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>This is an excellent time to read Benedict's "Imagined Communities"</p>
<p>Or in some more flagrant cases like Columbia's, perhaps some Orwell ;-)</p>
<p>Bringing back a 3 year old topic.</p>
<p>Why must we keep doing this? Harvard is a great school, and so is Yale.</p>
<p>Exactly, rd31. More trite comments to show off. Show off what? </p>
<p>rd31 is a current student and I'm an alum. This thread is unseemly IMHO.</p>
<p>DIE, thread, DIE!!! This is the most useless thread ever. When people start debating the merits of school founders 300 years ago, things have gone too far.</p>