I have an LRW memo due on Thursday at 8, and subciting reports for JOLT due on Thursday at 5. I will explain what the subciting reports are later (the memo’s not really interesting enough to warrant an explanation). That is, I’ll explain what they are when I have a chance to come up for air.
And of course, you wouldn’t expect me to forget that we beat Dartmouth! (The chess match against Dartmouth should be on my birthday, October 28th, if all goes according to plan).
you know that “for god for country and for yale” is a line in an e.e. cummings poem? and that e.e. cummings graduated from harvard? and that the poem, from my vague understanding of the english language as it pertains to poetry, is about young chaps goin’ off to war and spreading syphilis? or maybe i’m just crazy.
oh, so i guess in lieu of playing dartmouth on your birthday we’ll just give you a toast.
Actually, I’m fairly certain that “For G-d, for country and for Yale” predates e.e. cummings’s poetry (but not by much). But if you’re going to make fun of it, (and Kathryn, you ought to be ashamed for thinking such a thing), you should at least go with the much wittier quip that was offered, such as that at the bottom of this page.
Of course, all that such talk has done is to solidify Yale’s stature among lexicographers: The Free Dictionary’s definition of anticlimax.