The Harvard Grift

Alan Joseph Bauer Jan 08, 2024

The one consistent theme for the left is to destroy that which previous generations have created and nurtured over generations.  One thing that the left in the US and Europe consistently does is to destroy that which was given to them by previous generations. Here are a couple of examples:........And then there is Harvard, my erstwhile alma mater. 

Over nearly 400 years, Harvard built up an international reputation as one of the finest universities in history. Inventions, Nobel Prizes, top minds—they all seemed to come out of Harvard with a regularity not seen anywhere else in the US or the world. If the US sends 32 Rhodes Scholars to Oxford each year, half would be from Harvard. The Supreme Court had half of its justices with law degrees from Harvard Law School. Eight US presidents graduated from Harvard. Harvard was like Tom Brady, with his seven Super Bowl championship rings. 

A great player might have made two Super Bowls and even won one of them—something he could tell his grandchildren. But winning seven and playing in ten is beyond the stratosphere. And thus was Harvard, in every category, from the size of its endowment to a number of breakthrough discoveries to the annual October announcements of Nobel laureates. 

There was no better institutional name than Harvard. Thousands applied each year, hoping to have their names and that of Harvard attached for eternity for job advancement and standing in the community. As I previously wrote, in my life, I have only met one person who had never heard of Harvard before.........Harvard’s custodians have destroyed the value of the Harvard name. It has become the butt of jokes and people here in Israel are embarrassed to say that they went there. As graduates, we bought into “Harvard,” and the value added it represented for our future opportunities. We will soon be holding the Harvard Corporation legally responsible for its destruction of the Harvard brand......To Read More...