HARVARD tops the new Shanhai rankings of world's top universities

<p>You are “twisting my words beyond recognition” … and furthermore I have long acknowledged that for some timid and less self confident folk, teeny tinies are the place to be, providing, as they <em>universally</em> do, a safe haven, where milk and cookies are served in the President’s parlour on Sunday evenings, and the Dean of Students stands ready to tuck you in at night. </p>

<p>Who cares if the “professors” are rejects from better schools, and have never published anything of note? (I have an image in my mind of Richard Burton in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) They are nevertheless friendly and never speak harshly, and in nice weather move classes outside under the trees, with the birds twittering and the cute little squirrels eating potato chips out of your hand!</p>