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Is Harvard turning into a huge joke?
Washington Examiner ^ | December 31, 2022 | Brad Polumbo

Posted on 12/31/2022 9:39:51 AM PST by george76

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1 posted on 12/31/2022 9:39:51 AM PST by george76
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Too Late. Harvard has been a joke for years. Arrogant Snobs.


2 posted on 12/31/2022 9:41:16 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Harvard destroyed any history of those that graduated from the university and served with the Confederacy. Harvard's lead started “wokism” there. There are hundreds of colleges that have a higher level of teaching and students.
3 posted on 12/31/2022 9:45:39 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: OHPatriot

Psalm 14:1 says it best, only fools say there is no God.


4 posted on 12/31/2022 9:46:00 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: OHPatriot

Pensacola Baptist is in every way a better school academically.


5 posted on 12/31/2022 9:46:43 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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I graduated from a MAC school in the 70’s with a 3.2 GPA and worked my az off to get that.

Back then a B or better overall GPA for a BS degree was something of which to be genuinely proud.


6 posted on 12/31/2022 9:48:02 AM PST by traderrob6
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Harvard = $53 billion tax free endowment. They should be force to pay all the tuition and fees of Harvard students


7 posted on 12/31/2022 9:48:35 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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The average GPA at Harvard is now 3.8

If the average is not 2.0, a C, then it is a joke (or a farce).

8 posted on 12/31/2022 9:50:37 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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The endowment should be seized and paid as reparations to poor white families to make up for decades of discrimination against them in the name of “affirmative action”.


9 posted on 12/31/2022 9:53:15 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: vetvetdoug
Harvard destroyed any history of those that graduated from the university and served with the Confederacy.

How so? I know that in the 1870s they built a memorial to graduates who had died in the Union forces, but emotions were still strong at that time, and you'd be hard pressed to find a Southern college at that time honoring any of their graduates who fought for the union.

10 posted on 12/31/2022 9:54:34 AM PST by x
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‘...only fools say there is no God.’

and this you know exactly how...? other than an ancient witticism...


11 posted on 12/31/2022 9:59:02 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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I’d like to see admissions broken down by demographic over the years and how the trends look across the demographics.

I’m pretty sure I know what I’d find.


12 posted on 12/31/2022 10:01:14 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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I went to U of of Chicago in the early ‘80s, and grade inflation was already a thing EXCEPT at U of C. That wound up hurting grads whose grades would have been better at Dartmouth or Brown.


13 posted on 12/31/2022 10:01:51 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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A “woke” university is a “joke” university. The same applies to el/hi “woke” schools.


14 posted on 12/31/2022 10:01:57 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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Harvard Crimson makes it clear that the university is becoming a glorified academic daycare where every student gets a trophy or, in this case, an A. The average GPA at Harvard is now 3.8 ... out of 4.0,

They are merely aping and justifying America's new values. Albeit they continue to do it in an advanced, post-modern intellectual and elitist way. They will stay on top in our strange new world.

15 posted on 12/31/2022 10:03:29 AM PST by PGR88
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Oh boo-hoo those meanie old Southerners

Unlike you I live down here and we have plenty of monuments honoring the dead on both sides they make a point of doing that in fact just a few years ago in Franklin Tennessee who was building a new target they found the Ramones of an unidentified soldier when they were doing the site prep And they They had a big deal funeral for him and they honored him with both flags etc. given that it was impossible to ascertain which side you fought for who apparently had both union and confederate buttons on his jacket which was not unusual for either size since they turned it to pick up buttons from the battlefield to replace the ones that broke all the time

https://www.al.com/live/2009/10/unknown_civil_war_soldier_rebu.html

But yes I think the Ivy League and most colleges in general or lost they are just bastion of Wokeness that cost too damn much I don’t see the benefit of college these days unless you have a specific plan that requires a degree I would not pay all that money just for a run-of-the-mill liberal arts degree to put on the wall like I have but mine cost about 10% of what they cost today

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-monuments-of-Union-soldiers-in-the-American-South

Aside from the neo abolitionist in reconstruction Most people were more magnanimous to both sides Open till very recently when they became sanctimonious about it like you are


16 posted on 12/31/2022 10:05:41 AM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of liars)
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Don’t want to damage the students self esteem.


17 posted on 12/31/2022 10:06:10 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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Risk-taking at one time was taking a course pass/fail.
And in most colleges the pass did not count as part of your GPA only the total credits counted to graduation.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 10:10:49 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: wardaddy; rockrr
Not so much. Bad feelings lasted a long time.

Unlike you I live down here and we have plenty of monuments honoring the dead on both sides they make a point of doing that in fact just a few years ago in Franklin Tennessee who was building a new target they found the Ramones of an unidentified soldier when they were doing the site prep And they They had a big deal funeral for him and they honored him with both flags etc. given that it was impossible to ascertain which side you fought for who apparently had both union and confederate buttons on his jacket which was not unusual for either size since they turned it to pick up buttons from the battlefield to replace the ones that broke all the time

The 1870s were much more than a "few years ago," but I'm glad the guy's Ramones got a good send off.

19 posted on 12/31/2022 10:11:27 AM PST by x
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The rap at Hah-Vahd has always been that the stoodents there are all A stoodents, so they should get A’s.

Makes sense, huh?


20 posted on 12/31/2022 10:12:48 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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