Shots In The Dark: Yale Is Fun

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Yale Is Fun

In the Yale Daily News, a writer tries to explain the difference between Yale and Harvard:

Yale is not impervious to negative exposure in the same way that Harvard is. Harvard's reputation to prospective students is built entirely on prestige - it is Harvard, and refuses to let them forget it. So what if a scandal or two breaks out? It is the most prestigious school in the world, and the diploma means no less without Summers than with him.

Yale, by contrast, has no need to build its marketing campaign to high-school students on name only. This is because, to put it plainly, Yale is actually fun; Harvard is not. For evidence, please refer to the weekend before last.

So I'm guessing that Yalies had more fun at the Game than Harvard folks?

¶ 7:51 AM

Comments:

Judging by the number that were stumbling around and falling down drunk, barely coherent, uttering pronfanities, and vomiting and/or urinating in plain sight... yes, I guess they might consider themselves to have had more "fun" than their Crimson counterparts.

Guess they enjoyed the opportunity to step outside themselves and act like any number of typical college students who spend their Saturday afternoon gamedays in such fashion.

# posted by Anonymous : 8:14 AM

Actually,that's pretty much daily life in New Haven.

# posted by richard : 8:29 AM

harvard's for suck-ups, yale's for wankers.....soft upper haute bourgeoise kids who can't hold their liquor

# posted by Anonymous : 10:32 AM

"Upper haute bourgeoisie"? Sounds to me like someone is overcompensating.

# posted by richard : 10:56 AM

Actually, typical college students get to see much better football whilst drunk and don't need to have the pathetic Harvard-Yale argument of who parties harder, a typical Ivy, appearance-driven concern.
Sincerely,
Typical College Alum

# posted by Anonymous : 12:38 PM

You are SO right.

And as the author of "upper haute bougeoise", Richard, see "Metropolitan", a film that probably you (of all people) enjoyed.

# posted by Anonymous : 5:14 PM

funny, if you google "upper haute bourgeoisie" (the correct spelling), you turn up not only review of Metropolitan, but a comment from someone on this very blog!

# posted by Anonymous : 5:17 PM

Richard seems more an "urban haute bohemian" that "upper haute bourgeoise," which isn't necessarily a bad thing now.

# posted by Anonymous : 8:43 AM

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