Ten Thousand Men of Harvard want victory today !

 

 


 Harvard College, founded in the 17th century in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  It started as a normal school in 1636, teaching teachers to teach ... and became one of the most prestigious schools in the world, its library system and financial endowment larger than those of any other. 

 The annual undergraduate tuition was $300 in the 1920s and $400 in the 1930s, doubling to $800 in 1953. It reached $2,600 in 1970 and $22,700 in 2000.  By 2023, a student living on campus was paying $54,000 for tuition, and another $13,000 for housing, $8,000 for food with another $4,900 in various fees. 

It is indeed a marvel.  Alumni are luminaries in every world -  Robert Frost, BF Skinner, W.E.B. DuBois, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson are but a few.  The intellect and skill.  The reasoning and rational mind of those men, coupled with women like Helen Keller and many others of note, make Harvard an institution to dream of attending.   Producing intellectual giants like Henry David Thoreau, Robert Oppenheimer, Henry Kissinger and Noam Chomsky.  It sends shivers down your spine - then there are others like John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Becoming an alumni requires admission, and it is tough - an average score of 1580 on the SAT.  A G.P.A. of over 4.18 will get you considered.  And even then admissions is about 4.6% of those who apply.  Tough.  

Beyond being Presidents and scientists, alumni from Harvard have had an impact in every area of our political and economic life. 

 

They also produce intellectual giants like those who signed on to this declaration (taken from the Harvard Crimson) -

Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine

We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all
unfolding violence.

Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in
Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of
hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters
for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full
brunt of Israel’s violence.

The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of
Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary
detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings,
Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.

Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm
stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the
ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.

This statement was co-authored by a coalition of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard. For
student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have been concealed at this
time.

 

I would rather not go to school, then go to a place that teachers and encourages such broken minds to follow their debased values and champion hate and lies.  It is telling, and sad.  As bad as these ignorant children are, those who encourage, nurture, and feed them the lies and hate - they should lose their jobs. 

 

 

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