Yalies Having Fun!

[CTyankee]

The high spirits as we approach the annual Yale-Harvard Game remain in good form with the Yalies latest prank: to infiltrate the Harvard poll for The Game's T shirts for the Cantabs. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22073

Actually, I kinda liked to one quoting the wicked witch "I'll get you and your little dog, too" since Yale's mascot, Handsome Dan, is a Bulldog.

A little fun for the Eli's who will look back on this prank fondly one day...

[billyoc]

1. A little fun for the Eli's who will look back on this prank fondly one day...

when they're infiltrating exit polls in South America. :evilgrin:

[CTyankee]

2. Yep, unfortunately I think it may be so! Yale often states that its mission is to

educate tomorrow's leaders. Well, we've had GHWB, GWB and Bill Clinton. We'll see if we have HRC...

[sir_captain]

3. As a Harvard alum

I'm a little more comfortable with our contributions of FDR and Kennedy (I'll even throw Teddy in there.) I don't really count grad schools, and particularly HBS, so I'll happily keep GWB out of the mix. ;-)

[CTyankee]

4. Actually, I know a lot about Harvard since my first husband was

a Harvard man (you know the joke: you can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much!). I don't think he has ever gotten over going to Harvard and he's 75! I once dated a Dartmouth man who pretty much said the same thing.

I know so well that many Elis regard as true Yales those with undergraduate degrees, so your comment is no surprise to me.

There are great memories I have, tho, of going to Harvard football games back in the day, singing "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and some other fight songs I can barely recall now. I'll be at the Yale Bowl this year for The Game. They finally repaired it but for a long time it looked like the Roman Colosseum...

Who is HBS?

[sir_captain]

5. heh...there are a lot of harvard alums like that

it's kind of the high point of their lives. it is true, though, that at places like harvard and yale, i think the undergraduate experience is a completely different situation from any of the graduate programs.

HBS is Harvard Business School, where our not-so-esteemed President attended. So I like to pretend that it doesn't exist.

I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to The Game this year, unfortunately...too much work to do and not enough time!

[CTyankee]

6. I was recently at a memorial service for a Yalie, who was 65 at his death.

An a cappela quartet sang "Neath the Elms," a wonderful song about the days spent as undergraduate Yale students. Everyone in the church was in tears at the end. Those memories are powerful stuff.

Sorry you won't make The Game this year. I usually don't go because it is so late in the fall and the Bowl is pretty cold.

BTW, has Harvard changed the words to its Alma Mater "Fair Harvard thy sons to thy jubilee throng..." ? I remember when Harvard went co-ed and there was a big dustup at the Harvard Club of NYC about letting women enter through the main entrance, instead of the side door where they had to slink in.

[sir_captain]

9. You know, honestly

I never paid a whole lot of attention to the words. I do know that women can certainly walk in the normal entrance of the Harvard Club now, though. Gotta love those old boys clubs...

For all of its pomposity though, it was a pretty incredible place to spend 4 years growing up, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

[CTyankee]

10. The old schools foster that feeling a lot. Good for fundraising. My dtr told me that she knew

"it doesn't get better than this" when she went to Mount Holyoke. At graduation, the girls all wore white and carried laurel leaves to Mary Lyons grave. It sounds kinda strange as I type this but at the time both students and parents were enraptured by the beauty of the place and the ambiance.

[CTyankee]

7. Oh, and about HBS. We always referred to it as the Harvard B School .

When did that change?

[sir_captain]

8. I refer to it as either

I'd probably say the B School if I were speaking out loud, but HBS was faster to type.