How Hillsdale Beats Harvard

Wall Street Journal - Opinion Journal ^ | 6-2-09 | Bill McGurn

[hillsdale1]

This week the 1,600 or so members of Harvard's Class of 2009 will leave campus with a coveted Ivy degree. Of this number, seven will leave with something else: the gold bars of a second lieutenant.

At a time when institutions from our banks and auto makers to our churches and public schools seem to have trouble honoring their most basic promises, these young officers enter a life where words have meaning, meaning has consequences, and those consequences can include a flag-draped coffin. Tomorrow on Harvard Yard, Gen. David Petraeus will address these young men and women -- four Army, three Marines -- at their commissioning ceremony. On a campus where the military is officially unwelcome, that ceremony offers an interesting perspective on what the modern academy teaches us about living by our principles.

[newguy357]

It also beats Harvard in it's quantity of gay porn stars.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247363/posts

[garyhope]

Only 7 out of the entire graduating class of one of our “better”, most prestigious universities? Scandalous, shameful.

[Oldexpat]

I don’t know why the Armed Forces would take anyone from Harvard. They could be used as targets or mess cooks, but officers?

[garyhope]

You might be right, but on the other hand they might be courageous for going to Harvard AND being in any kind of military.

Imagine the scorn and hostility they probably suffer there for being in the military.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"It also beats Harvard in it's quantity of gay porn stars."

Although the spiteful motivating you comes through loud and clear, before you jump at chances to show which side you're on in spiritual warfare, which is obviously never going to be waged "fairly" you might at least try and make yourself a little less transparent by having the basic facts straight.

Hillsdale is not the school about which the article you used this thread as an excuse to link to is written.

If you rank yourself among the many who believe any methods are justifiable in smearing Christians, and like some others on FR who seem to make seizing such opportunities your primary purpose for coming to this Site, please disregard this advice.

[SeekAndFind]

Let’s be honest. Even for most Conservatives, if their kids were to be accepted by both Harvard and Hillsdale, THEY WOULD ADVISE THEIR KIDS TO GO TO HARVARD IN A HEARTBEAT.

[SeaHawkFan]

Let’s be honest. Even for most Conservatives, if their kids were to be accepted by both Harvard and Hillsdale, THEY WOULD ADVISE THEIR KIDS TO GO TO HARVARD IN A HEARTBEAT.

If parents were conservative, they wouldn't allow their kids to go to Harvard.

[newguy357]

Don’t get your panties in a bunch. Yes, I got the schools confused. That was my mistake.

But you don’t find it the least bit obnoxious that someone recently joins facebook with the name “hillsdale” and begins posting about how great hillsdale is? I don’t care how great the school is—this is like an obnoxious advertisement.

[newguy357]

That’s moronic.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Let’s be honest. Even for most Conservatives, if their kids were to be accepted by both Harvard and Hillsdale, THEY WOULD ADVISE THEIR KIDS TO GO TO HARVARD IN A HEARTBEAT"

I guess I'm not "most Conservatives", cause that isn't what I did (except it was Grove City, not Hillsdale).