Harvard was called the "Kremlin on the Charles" when I arrived there as a freshman in '67 (and for years before that, I believe). By the time I escaped in '71, it was my personal goal to relearn how to write an intelligible sentence. I soon learned more about public policy questions, arguments, and evidence, during one year working in the Alaska State budget office than I ever learned at Harvard. Since campus orthodoxy has been so rigid for so long, perhaps there is more promise in the continuing slide of these institutions into irrelevance than in their internal reform.

Thank you for "telling it like it is." I'm Harvard College '44 and Harvard Law School '48. It's not a women's issue. It's just a power grab by a small group. They are driving on someone else's gas. They can try to replace merit with good feelings, but it won't work. It will be obvious after the damage has been done.