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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale ‘02 and we have always been more oriented towards public service-type roles than Harvard. It’s cultural and part of what drew me to Yale over other schools I was admitted to, Harvard included. I can’t articulate it but there is a motto that pops up everywhere at Yale, especially in songs and historic stuff: “For God, For Country, and For Yale”.

Here’s an except from a 1950 issue of the Harvard crimson discussing the differences between the schools- everything in the article rings true of my experience save for some outdated terms (we still had heeling but not wheels), which mentions the phrase:

“The last phrase, probably the most anticlimactic periodic sentence in American literature, is engraved on Gothic walls and Yalemen hearts. "By God, that really means something here," says a professor who switched recently from another college. "I thought it was a gag until I saw it in stone. It is enormously strong as a symbol."”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1950/11/25/yale-for-god-country-and-success/
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This is one thing I can't stand about Yale alum. All these unnecessary soliloquies about them; we get it, you went to Yale.[/quote]

Sorry no one asked you what makes your alma mater unique. Maybe you can start a separate thread fishing for compliments about your fellow alumni.[/quote]
I don't aspire to. That was the whole point of the comment. My alma mater is mentioned every day here, but I have no interest writing paragraphs about how fantastic it is, rather giving substantive commentary matters more. [/quote]

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