Turning Crimson at Harvard
Bill McGurn ·
April 3, 2012 at 4:37pm
Rather speaks for itself. We are told this is the eighth annual seminar. You would think after the first one or two, even Harvard students would have learned.
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Jun '10
Re: Turning Crimson at Harvard
So, secular humanists DO have spiritual directors and religious education. I had no idea.
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I think this is a remedial course. Manifestly students arrive at Harvard woefully unprepared here.
Apr '11
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Might have been easier to take over a glass of wine before dinner rather than coffee before breakfast.
Mar '11
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The breathtaking hedonism, with no grasp at all that *all* kinds of happiness are a result of grown-up behavior and relationships..... I, for one, feel diminished for having watched this.
And I think the video is beneath Ricochet.
Mar '11
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They certainly should be.
Are you suggesting that young people should be experts at getting the most from sex? That is obviously untrue. Sex pays dividends as love grows - not as a result of random college hookups. It is pathetic that our society does not understand this.
Edited on April 3, 2012 at 5:03pmAug '10
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There are articles and books students could get for free, or for almost no money, that would cover all of this for anyone who wanted to know. Considering what it costs to go to Harvard, it just isn't believable time is spent this way.
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Are you sure this isn't the Lampoon pretending to be the Crimson?
Apr '11
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How many years does the Harvard (or Yale, Stanford,et. al.) reputation have left?
I know people will say it's already gone, but it's still lingers.
For instance, if you meet someone with a son or daughter at Harvard, they will be sure to make you aware of that fact in fairly short order.
Or a resume with an Ivy League degree on it will move to the top of the pile. It may not guarantee the job, but it certainly helps.
So at what point will these institutions have completely frittered away that cachet with this sort of silliness?
Aug '10
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It has to be the Lampoon.
Feb '12
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What's incredible is how most parents who have the means are only too happy to send their children to college to hear - and do, and, ultimately, think - the things in the video.
Feb '12
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This is a course for college credit? Reminds me of the little scandal Northwestern had about a year ago where a sex ed professor had an after class demonstration using real people and various gadgetry. How can these schools charge 50+K a year and offer this as college material?
May '10
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Aww, and here I thought this video would be about Big Al lecturing at Harvard.
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No. Just an event put on by students.
Aug '10
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Do they also get their meals with the sex education for the approximate $50,000 annual tuition and boarding costs ??
Wow, what a deal ! Guess they were so busy studying in high school, they forgot to have sex.
Higher learning means higher values ? They'll lose those quickly.
Aug '10
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Given that Lady GaGa spoke at Harvard recently, I am inclined to believe this is a real "lecture." But it was headed by a Lampoon logo so maybe, perhaps, maybe oh I hope so -- we an imagine it's a spoof. If it's not, we're even more lost than I thought.
Couple it with Obama's disgraceful performance yesterday, and I guess we'd all be better off just having a good solid cry.
Apr '11
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iWe, I don't find it unsuitable, just wish it had come with a content warning. I would have saved it for later in the day.
To borrow a phrase from someone I can't remember, we surely are slouching towards Gomorrah, we've pass Sodom. Where did I hear or see that phrase wise Ricochettes?
Aug '10
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To the tune of 50,000 a year, I find it unsuitable. You help send your kid off to an expensive college (as opposed to, say, helping her pay for an online degree) because the culture of the campus is supposed to be so edifying.
May '10
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Maybe this is where the president went when he apparently skipped his Harvard Law School Con Law I lesson on judicial review.
Edited on April 3, 2012 at 6:38pmAug '10
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Slouching Toward Gomorrah is the title of a book by the Honorable Robert Bork -- oh would that he had not been trashed by the Oldsmobile murderer!
Aug '10
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Oh, and just possibly Judge Bork took his title idea from Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.