Monday, January 08, 2007

The Dark Ages at Yale

At The History Network there is a report from Yale's dark ages. The historian Jesse Lemisch catalogues horror stories from his time at Yale during the cold war. Look below for an amusing ancedote of expensive learning. Here is a previous unflattering story about Yale also from the The History Network.

The barbarities of undergraduate culture at the time helped to prepare these people to commit barbaric acts on a world scale later on in adult (?) life. The culture honored heavy drinking and public vomiting and urinating – long before the homeless picked up these virtuous behaviors from Yalies.

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