Hampden Sydney College

[Anonymous]

Dumb rich racists. After Obama was re-elected there was a riot on campus where students were yelling racial slurs and throwing bottles outside of the minority student union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb rich racists. After Obama was re-elected there was a riot on campus where students were yelling racial slurs and throwing bottles outside of the minority student union.

OK, I'm 17:51 and I take it all back.

Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Way blown out of proportion. The President of the school is a black guy. If you have ever been there or know any graduates you would have a far more positive view of H-SC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such a nasty thread. First there's OP's post, sniffing about how unimpressed she is by her friend's college (nice friend you are, by the way) then everyone piles on about how stupid all the students are at this particular school.



OP here. -I can't be impressed by something I have never heard of! He acts as if I should know how xxxx it is--elite? expensive? I have no idea. FWIW, I went to a state school, so it's not like I am a snob He also condescends to my husband, who went to an Ivy (but never talks about it).. I just don't understand why he's bragging about his college, which seems rather gauche, yes?

[Anonymous]

It's a unique, old (founded in 1776), private southern college for men. It's not for everyone-- but it has an incredible alumni network in the south. It also has a very strict honor code. You can leave your laptop in the library for half a day and it will be here when you get back. The academics are hard during the week but the place parties very hard on the weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way blown out of proportion. The President of the school is a black guy. If you have ever been there or know any graduates you would have a far more positive view of H-SC.

Explain how this was blown out of proportion. This kind of behavior is never acceptable. Maybe as an alumni or friend of this school you don't get that.

[Anonymous]

3 or 4 bad apples and they were expelled. It is not indicative of the vast majority of the student body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My father went there in the '60's and it had a far better academic reputation. He went on to graduate top of his class at Medical College of Virginia.

That being said reputations often negate reality --- for instance - to all the PPs who went to a VA women's college and rated the HS men poorly - just so you know those of us who attended women's colleges in New England, consider your women's colleges in VA to be nothing more than fluffy finishing schools for the over-indulged.

So it is all in perspective my friends.

Indeed. I associate Smith with hiking boots and generally useless college majors and Wellesley with female students who couldn't quite manage to get into an Ivy or a Williams/Amherst. And Mount Holyoke simply draws a total blank.

Are you even remotely familiar with the Seven Sisters Colleges??

I assume you are familiar with Hillary Clinton - a Wellesley grad - I'm guessing she isn't too torn up about not "managing to get in to Williams/Amherst".

Or perhaps you are familar with Julia Childs and Gloria Steinem both of whom I am sure would find humor in your hiking boots analogy.

And let me fill in your total blank on Mount Holyoke --

Mount Holyoke provided the inspiration, the model, and often the leadership, for the many women's colleges that followed. A few examples: Wellesley College was founded by a Mount Holyoke trustee, Henry Durant, and its first president was an 1853 Mount Holyoke alumna, Ada Howard. Another trustee, John Greene, was instrumental in founding Smith College. Susan Tolman Mills, class of 1845, and her husband founded Mills College in California.

Alumnae include:

•First woman specialist in aerospace medicine
•Co-discoverer of the antibiotic nystatin, first of the "wonder drugs"
•Inventor of Apgar Score, used worldwide (and probably on you!) to measure health of newborn babies in the delivery room
•First physician to identify cystic fibrosis
•First woman president of the:
•American Chemical Society
•Royal Canadian Institute
•American Paleontological Society
•American Association of Physical Anthropology
•First woman given a research post at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory
•One of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in science from Yale University
•Primary anesthesiologist at New England's first heart transplant
•Developer of the concept of "territoriality" to explain birds' nesting behavior
•First woman to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet and the creator of Social Security, minimum wage, and workmen's compensation
•First woman elected a state governor on her own (without succeeding her husband)
•First African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
•First woman movie producer to win an Oscar
•First woman railroad superintendent

[Anonymous]

8:27PP here meant to say Julia Childs & Gloria Steinem are Smith grads.

[Anonymous]

LOL

[Anonymous]

Great southern school with super loyal and successful alumni. Lots of grads in DC, Richmond, Atlanta, Charlotte etc.

[Anonymous]

H-SC is for rich southern men. We don't consider D.C to be southern. Most of you all sound like you're poor and ignorant. At Hampden-Sydney we educate men to preform well in the work place. We may not have the smartest guys, but we make them into amazing men. We make sure they are well paid. $100k+ right out of college. Get it right you left wind fags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My father went there in the '60's and it had a far better academic reputation. He went on to graduate top of his class at Medical College of Virginia.

That being said reputations often negate reality --- for instance - to all the PPs who went to a VA women's college and rated the HS men poorly - just so you know those of us who attended women's colleges in New England, consider your women's colleges in VA to be nothing more than fluffy finishing schools for the over-indulged.

So it is all in perspective my friends.

Indeed. I associate Smith with hiking boots and generally useless college majors and Wellesley with female students who couldn't quite manage to get into an Ivy or a Williams/Amherst. And Mount Holyoke simply draws a total blank.

Are you even remotely familiar with the Seven Sisters Colleges??

I assume you are familiar with Hillary Clinton - a Wellesley grad - I'm guessing she isn't too torn up about not "managing to get in to Williams/Amherst".

Or perhaps you are familar with Julia Childs and Gloria Steinem both of whom I am sure would find humor in your hiking boots analogy.

And let me fill in your total blank on Mount Holyoke --

Mount Holyoke provided the inspiration, the model, and often the leadership, for the many women's colleges that followed. A few examples: Wellesley College was founded by a Mount Holyoke trustee, Henry Durant, and its first president was an 1853 Mount Holyoke alumna, Ada Howard. Another trustee, John Greene, was instrumental in founding Smith College. Susan Tolman Mills, class of 1845, and her husband founded Mills College in California.

Alumnae include:

•First woman specialist in aerospace medicine
•Co-discoverer of the antibiotic nystatin, first of the "wonder drugs"
•Inventor of Apgar Score, used worldwide (and probably on you!) to measure health of newborn babies in the delivery room
•First physician to identify cystic fibrosis
•First woman president of the:
•American Chemical Society
•Royal Canadian Institute
•American Paleontological Society
•American Association of Physical Anthropology
•First woman given a research post at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory
•One of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in science from Yale University
•Primary anesthesiologist at New England's first heart transplant
•Developer of the concept of "territoriality" to explain birds' nesting behavior
•First woman to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet and the creator of Social Security, minimum wage, and workmen's compensation
•First woman elected a state governor on her own (without succeeding her husband)
•First African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
•First woman movie producer to win an Oscar
•First woman railroad superintendent

Ancient history. Now that formerly all-male schools admit women, the Seven Sisters are a shadow of their former self. The fact that some Mount Holyoke grad founded another school in 1850 is pretty much a factoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb rich racists. After Obama was re-elected there was a riot on campus where students were yelling racial slurs and throwing bottles outside of the minority student union.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H-SC is for rich southern men. We don't consider D.C to be southern. Most of you all sound like you're poor and ignorant. At Hampden-Sydney we educate men to preform well in the work place. We may not have the smartest guys, but we make them into amazing men. We make sure they are well paid. $100k+ right out of college. Get it right you left wind fags

Bless your heart. What a ringing endorsement for your school.