YALE - Harvard w/o the depression

T26E4
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:15:53 +0000

I’ll chime in with my anecdote: at a large alumni function in Chicago once, then-President Schmidt came to speak. Afterwards, I was chatting with one of the other Y administration that attended. In conversation, he mentioned that he had attended H for college and Y for grad. Jokingly I said to him: “As much as we want to deny it, we Yalies are curious about Harvard. What’s your take on it?”

He said:“Well, graduating from Harvard, I felt there was nothing I couldn’t accomplish”

I thought:“Wow, that’s quite the compliment!”

He continued: “But I LOVED Yale.”

That encapsulates it pretty succinctly in my book.