Interesting news about Harvard admissions

[David Harding]

I know people who who were legacies and children of faculty members (sometimes both) who did not get admitted. In those cases, Cornell often offers the guaranteed transfer option -- go somewhere else for a year and if you meet whatever the GPA threshold is we'll let you in as a sophomore. Do many other elite schools do that?

I remember a piece by John Marcham '50, then the editor/publisher of Cornell Alumni News, and son Prof Fred Marcham PhD '26, when his son was not accepted by Cornell.

[Trotsky]

tldr: cook the rich alive, slowly, on a spit.  Except my personal rich friends, of course.  They are the meretricious exceptions.

Meretricious is a fabulous word; many people think it has something to do with merit. As opposed to "appealing, flashy, no real value/integrity." My boss at PCMag upon leaving a previous job told his then-boss she was one of the most meretricious people he'd met. The moment he left her office, she looked it up. It went from bad (definition) to worse (archaic definition): "characteristic of or relating to a prostitute."

The Times does not acknowledge an error.

Still, put me in your wills.