<p>kingduke’s air of maturity and moral superiority is simultaneously amusing and irritating as usual but as you say, for the sake of argument…</p>
<p>The “grandoise statements” originated with red& blue claiming that “In the entire range of academic disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, professions) Stanford is equal to or superior to Harvard.” The reality is of course that Harvard has an edge in pretty much all of these areas with the only possible exception of engineering. I was merely pointing this out, and that does not equal arrogance on my part. It’s quite possible that this arrogance you accuse me of is actually your own that you are projecting onto me. Your condescending attitude, as amply demonstrated in your other posts, gives away what’s underneath the facade of neutrality and reason. At least I don’t attempt to make any pretenses.</p>
<p>“What is “impact”? What defines “physical and intellectual resources” as great?” Umm, shouldn’t this be this fairly evident by all the leading politicians, jurists, business executives, physicians, journalists, and academics that Harvard has produced? Don’t all the research laboratories, affiliated hospitals and institutes, libraries, the endowment, the faculty, etc. put Harvard well ahead of the others? Either your powers of observation are severely limited or you are in denial. </p>
<p>“I’ve discovered that there are many smart people at those other places too … and some of them are actually smarter than their counterparts at Harvard.” Very nice. You know what, I’ve known that even without having to travel to other schools. It’s just that overall, Harvard has more of these people than other schools. </p>
<p>Nuff said.</p>