Comments on: I will be breathing again on Friday. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/ Gens Una Sumus Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Scott Charles Caplan http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/#comment-104 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:38:54 +0000 http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/#comment-104 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 <a href="http://www.harvardmag.com/nd97/pump.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> page. Of course, all that such talk has done is to solidify Yale's stature among lexicographers: <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/anticlimax" rel="nofollow">The Free Dictionary's definition of anticlimax.</a> 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.

]]> by: Kaps http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/#comment-101 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:04:50 +0000 http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/#comment-101 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. 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.

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