[lbo-talk] Rah Rah Ivy? (Go Bucks!)

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Jul 28 19:17:27 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:05 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Rah Rah Ivy? (Go Bucks!)


>
> --- > Decent? Madison is probably one of the top
> > half-dozen state schools in the
> > nation (Berkeley, UCLA, Austin, Ann Arbor, and
> > Virginia are all of
> > comparable quality).
> >
> > > Were the Columbia students any smarter? Not
> > really.
> >
> > Other Ivy Leaguers have told me the same thing. I
> > don't believe them.
> >
>
> It's true, though. I went to Princeton and Cambridge
> (UK) and Michigan and Ohio State. The Ivy
> League/Oxbridge types were no smarter, not only than
> the Mich. students, but than the Ohio State students.
> There was a higher concentration of brilliant
> undergrads at Tigertown, but probably an absolutely
> smaller number. For sheer raw unadorned intellectual
> power, though, you couldn't do better than the top ten
> students in my law school class at Ohio State. They'd
> eat Princeton/Cambridge/Michigan philosophy undergrads
> and grad students for lunch. Much nicer people, too.
>
> jks
>
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Mmmmmmm, nice people with an aggressive/adversarial streak..........Billy Shakespeare where r u.......

Ian



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