<p>Re-posting the joke. Sorry Professor101, I have to complete what you did not finish. :)</p>
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<p>John: "Mary, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>Mary: “Dartmouth College.”</p>
<p>John: “It is only a COLLEGE? Well, I guess that’s better than mine. Mine is a junior university.”</p>
<p>Mary: "Which one?”</p>
<p>John: “Leland Stanford Junior University.”</p>
<p>Mary: “Someone on CC said that’s joke.”</p>
<p>John: “No, it’s a real university.”</p>
<p>Mary: “I see. Why do they call it a junior university? Why do people go there when they have choices to go to great universities like Yale?”</p>
<p>John;" Well, it is only junior to Harvard. What other universities?"</p>
<p>Mary: "Do you mean that Harvard is better?”</p>
<p>John: “Without loss of generality, let S=Stanford, and H=Harvard, then, H=(old) Oxbridge, S=(new) Harvard, S is more structurally stable like the tree, while H is more like tree leaves, and we can prove that S >> H.”</p>
<p>Mary: "That sounds so complicated.”</p>
<p>John: “Well, it could be just some undergraduate projects to prove this at Stanford, but it is a Ph.D. thesis topic for Harvard students.” </p>
<p>Mary: “What about Dartmouth?”</p>
<p>John: “Right, let S=Stanford, and D=Dartmouth, then… what was the question again?”</p>
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