[Mobile Vulgus]

This is the degraded state of our mis-educational system!

[Da Coyote]

In the world of science and engineering, Harvard degrees in the marshmallow subjects are not respected.

Harvard’s standards are going the way of GM’s standards...and the results are becoming painfully obvious.

[Dr. Ursus]

Our most illustrious professors of black studies!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Why the needless excerpt?

[PetroniusMaximus]

Newest portrait.

[manc]

so much for a color blind society.
So much for the content of ones character.

The bigoted racist left only see color, religion etc.
Affirmative action is yet another racist policy enacted by the left.

[Padams]

I know a couple of Harvard alums with a child now attending college there. These libs are shocked at the emphasis on diversity. It’s not the school they attended. I am amused watching their cognitive dissonance on display.

[A Navy Vet]

Here's a personal fact:

My SO and I watch the TV show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". We watch it to learn, and also to see how much we remember from our youth.

It still amazes us that college graduates don't know the simplest of questions that are taught from the 1st up to the 5th grade (most get the 1st & 2nd grade questions correct).

Here's a typical 3rd grade astronomy question: What is a light year? A measure of time, distance, or space? Got answer? Or: What is the capitol of Nebraska (hint: It's not Lincoln)? Or: Who was the second President after George Washington? No fair Googling.

Yes, I understand your mind can only hold so many memories, unlike the bogus scientific beliefs of the past that said we retain all memories. Anyone over the age of 50 knows that is pure speculative BS, much like global cooling and global warming.

[Question Liberal Authority]

of the some 750 oil portraits in Harvard’s collection of celebrated alumnus only two are of "minorities," and only just over 50 are of white women.

How many are conservative Republicans?

[Hawthorn]

Harvard could solve the problem by awarding posthumous degrees to a total of about 750 hundred dead people from among the following categories: Afro-American slaves, Sioux warriors and squaws, Chinese coolies who worked on the first trans-USA railroad, etc. etc. Just make sure that 51% are female. Then large, newly commissioned oil portraits of these distinguished alumni/alumnae could be displayed with appropriate pride.

[FrankR]

with barack obama as their poster boy, they should rethink their position.

[ladyjane]

Boston Globe clucks disapprovingly that of the some 750 oil portraits in Harvard’s collection of celebrated alumnus only two are of "minorities...

The plural for alumnus is alumni. That's for male graduates.

For females it's alumna and alumnae, singular and plural respectively.