Posted on 12/31/2022 9:39:51 AM PST by george76
Helmet Nielsen’s Thermo Class. The only place where absolute zero existed
In the past it was rather different, and even now, some people posting from down there have strange ideas about what was right and what was wrong.
Harvard built a Memorial Hall in the 1870s to honor its fallen Union alumni. There's been discussion about whether to honor the Confederate alumni in another chapel where those who fought in other wars are named. So far it hasn't happened, but to honor them in the Memorial Hall (assuming there's room there, which I don't think there is) would be to alter the original meaning and purpose of the place. For whatever it's worth, I notice that Yale honors all its fallen alumni in all wars, but they built their memorial later, well after the Civil War.
I think you are about 20 years late on that assessment. It has just gone further and further into the abyss since then.
My error via voice text doesn’t change the fact X that you were wrong as usual Blinded by your prejudice over slavery or whatever little happened to the poor black race boo-hoo
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You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much.
My uncle graduated from Harvard, and he’s about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice.
Mem Hall does not remember any of those students who fought for the Confederacy.
No. That's only their most recent poor decision.
I said that. It was begun in 1870 and finished in 1878 and they weren’t going to honor the people they’d just been fighting against. Princeton and Yale have memorial halls that were built after the First World War when things were different.
Reminds me of OZ giving Scarecrow a diploma. It’s getting there.
Wizard of Oz:
They have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD.
Scarecrow:
ThD?
Wizard of Oz:
That’s... Doctor of Thinkology.
YES, yes it is.
And it’s a damn shame.
But the whole education system should be abolished.
It does, sort of! Memorial Hall is a monument to Confederate marksmanship!!!!
Memorial Church remembers a Harvard Divinity School grad who died fighting for Nazi Germany. The least they could do is to remember their Confederates, perhaps with a brand new monument!!!!
Some of the women and minority deans are OK. Others are a disaster! Admissions is a disaster, too!
Incoming Harvard president Gay was a dean before corrupt Penny Pritzger made her Harvard president. Harvard rushed to make that internal choice, when it could have taken more time to search the academic world for the excellent, conservative president (probably a scientist) it needed. Horrors!
Nevertheless, Happy New Year!
MIT used a 5 point scale, instead of 4. A company I interviewed with lost all enthusiasm when they learned my A- GPA was really a B-. And I learned to keep my mouth shut.
Perhaps if you’re an affirmative action student, grade inflation allows you to graduate. Of course, the degree won’t be worth anything if this keeps up.
The 3.5 to 4.0’s are fewer and may rule the roost...
but the 2.5’s to 3.5’s grease the gears and keep the ship afloat...
The 2.5 to 3.5’s are greater in number and the economy would not function without them; over time in their simple doing of their jobs, this group become’s as knowledgeable as the 3.5 to 4.0’s in general were just out of the gate.
It least it was generally true before 2005.
In my day, the only info MIT gave out was what quarter of your class you graduated in.
I was in the upper quarter of my class. This concealed my C average in math and physics.
However, I used my math to get a B in physical chemistry (when all too many flunked the course). Then I used my math and physics for part of my PhD thesis in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. So C average MIT math and physics students can do OK!
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