Harvard’s Fashion Disaster

That would be Harvard.com, right?

Education has always been big business, but this is right up there with U. of Florida’s purchase by the NFL in, I believe, 1982–whenever Clemson went number one in football. (Clemson is setting the pace and standards for academia these days, by the way.)

After getting my Ph.D. from Florida in the seventies, I went back to grad school in Spanish in Gainesville in 1999. I found the library, students, professors, etc., but never could find the university. . . . I figured maybe the whole outfit just disbanded. It was only later that I found out that they were now a farm term for the NFL.

Harvard is playing catch-up to these real big leaguers down South.

By the way, I earned thirty-five grad hours in Spanish there in 99-01 with a 3.6 (at the age of fifty-six), protested some irregularities in the Romance Language Department (linked directly to the chair’s sleeping with the grad coordinator), and found myself prevented from getting the usual opportunities to take my written exams because I had “villanized” the faculty and “destroyed the mentoring relationship.” Still don’t have the M.A. in Spanish from that hole. . . . (Everything is this posting is fictional except for what I just said in this paragraph, all of which is absolutely true.)

Maybe we can now call Harvard “Florida North.” They seem to be moving in the right direction.

Landrum Kelly, Ph.D., Florida, 1978
Livingstone College
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