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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]So we are only allowed to praise universities based on false characteristics now?

The school has an "illustrious" history is this was 1776. It's not. The past 244 years of American history have gone by and again nothing illustrious has happened at the school, other than shutting down multiple times due to multiple bankruptcies, then being re-opened years later by the state as a school for schoolteachers.

This is simply stating facts, rather than embellishing a magical history that does not exist. We are not talking about Harvard, Yale, Princeton here, which were great in colonial times and have contributed ever more to American history since.

To say W&M has been quiet and irrelevant, to be frank, is an understatement. Multiple bankruptcies and closures, then being reopened as a state school for schoolteachers, are embarrassments.[/b][/quote]

How ignorant you are.  Do you realize that there was a small conflict that occurred between 1861-1865?  In the post war period Virginia was not even a state, but Military District No. 1.  Virginia and the South were punished by destitution for their secession.  HYP were on the winning side, flush with money from the newly industrialized North.

William and Mary had been a small, Anglican institution, providing a classical education thought to be essential for a Gentleman.  With industrialization Northern institutions quickly became trade schools.  It was Southern education that provided the great statesmen of the revolutionary period.

You spend a great deal of time railing against an institution of understated irrelevance.  Guess you never received the kind of well rounded liberal education that William and Mary provides.

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All that to just come back to talk about the "great statesmen of the revolutionary period"?

Again, no one denies the college produced a large number of great statesmen in the colonial period. That's largely because it was one of the few colleges that existed outside of NE and there was no other college to attend in the South.

Since then, it hasn't. [/quote]

You sure sound like a broken record in light of the evidence others have posted. Sorry you couldn't get in.[/quote]
The evidence others have posted consists repeated bleating about its colonial history.

Don't worry, you can continue to compare the school to prestigious privates to make yourself feel better for having it as your best option. [/quote]

PP above just listed the many prestigious recent alumni including Jen Psaki. Maybe your reading comprehension needs some work?[/quote]

NP, but she was listed in response to "there haven't been any alumni of Thomas Jefferson's caliber recently."  Jen Psaki is NOT on his level.[/quote]

Geez.  Jefferson is one of four on Mount Rushmore and one of the five presidential memorials in D.C.  Perhaps that bar is a bit unfair.

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Hi Jen. Sorry the Press Secretary thing isn’t going as planned. Perhaps you should have gone to Yale.[/quote]

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