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...disciplined youth who believed that accomplished blacks had a special responsibility to prove racist stereotypes false. Said Andre Francois, an Exeter friend, in an interview with the Times: "He believed in his ability to show that we are something in a society that has given us an inferior image...
Yale's motto ("Lux et Veritas"), but not Harvard's ("Veritas," no matter what the lighting), tells the Yalies that ultraviolet rays are necessary for the discovery of truth. But it is now apparent that Harvard is plummeting into the same murky depths as that inferior New Haven institution by preventing its students from finding wisdom in the dark...
...rudeness is considered a crime against the state. The government bureaucracy includes the absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that attempting to solve them would be "a mockery of the human condition." Blond-haired people, regarded as inferior, are downtrodden. Under Saint Sebastian's Enlightenment, the schools offer a nonstop curriculum of American B movies of the 1930s and '40s, with nuns serving as ushers and priests cranking the projectors...
...need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice quality and noise, brought about sometimes by inferior transmission equipment...
Still, Radcliffe women sometimes did not content themselves with participating in Radcliffe's extracurricular, which were roundly considered inferior and often frivolous. "If you were any good at all, then you didn't work for the Radcliffe News, you worked for the Crimson," Darst says...