[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 22 19:53:32 PDT 2008


On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:42 PM, W. Kiernan wrote:


> Come on with this lowly hired help stuff, the hired help don't ever
> have the power to make a couple marks with a pen and bounce your
> ass all the way out of college.

It was very very hard to flunk out of Yale, at least in the 1970s. They give you two chances before showing you the exit. Virtually everyone who enters graduates. Our theory at the time was, having let you in, they don't want to admit they might have been wrong.

Doug



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