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Is There No Chance for Hillary in 2016 - Meaning the Yale and Harvard Streak will End?
Now average Americans are going to have a hard time accepting this because average Americans consider the Ivy League to be something found in the history books, or maybe in prose or fiction books. The Great Gatsby comes to mind.
When it comes to power, the Ivy League is IT but normally in terms of the dominant Ivy influence over Wall Street, the international banking community, and the engines of commerce.
Where did the following Latin phrases come from?
In Deo Speramus - (In God We Hope)
In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen - (In Thy light shall we see the light)
Quisquam qui ars - (Any person -Any study)
Vox clamantis in deserto - (The voice of one crying in the wilderness)
Veritas -(Truth)
Dei sub numine viget - (Under God's power she flourishes)
Leges sine moribus vanae - (Laws without morals are useless)
Lux et veritas - (Light and truth)
Those are the mottos of the eight venerated Ivy League schools.
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Princeton
Pennsylvania
Yale
It seems we understand the power and influence of the Ivy League in terms of commerce but we really don't when it comes to national politics. In fact the attitude of the general public in terms of the Ivy League in politics is rather bleak.
According to recent Rasmussen polls only five percent (5%) of American Adults think it is better for America to have presidents only from Ivy League schools. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% believe it’s better for the country to have presidents who come from a variety of schools.
Try this!
There have been 43 men who served as US President as of 2008. It is often said that President Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. However, President Obama is only the 43rd different person to serve as President of the United States. This is due to the fact that President Grover Cleveland served non-consecutive terms and so is usually counted as both the 22nd and the 24th President.
Of our 43 presidents, 14 attended Ivy League schools. Forbes magazine identified these additional political facts about the Ivy League.
All considered, more than a third of all U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices and currently serving U.S. senators have attended an Ivy League school for undergraduate or graduate study.
It gets better. When Obama completes his 2nd term this year we will have had 28 straight years of presidents from Yale and Harvard alone consisting of Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 and Obama. In fact in the 227 years we have elected presidents, don't forget George Washington first took office in 1789, the Ivy League has held the presidency 85 of those years, or 37% of our history.
Hillary would be the 15th president from the Ivy League and that may be a bit too much for a nation in the which Ivy League represents just 8 out of 4,140 institutions of higher education. For those of you into decimals the Ivy League makes up under 2 tenths of one percent (.001932) of our institutions yet controlled the presidency 37% of the time.
Public 4-year institutions 629
Private 4-year institutions 1,845
Total 4 year 2,474
Public 2-year institutions 1,070
Private 2-year institutions 596
Total 2 year 1,666
Total 4 and 2 year 4,140
So money talks and legacy institutions prosper but you may be surprised when it comes to the costliest universities in America, long thought to be dominated by the Ivy League.
A recently compiled list of the 20 Most Expensive Colleges in the country shows prices, which include Tuition, Fees, Room and Board, range from $63,750 to just under $67,225 per year.
#1 Harvey Mudd College $67,255
#2 Columbia University $66,383
#3 New York University $65,860
#4 Sarah Lawrence College $65,630
#5 University of Chicago $64,965
#6 Bard College at Simon's Rock $64,519
#7 University of Southern California $64,482
#8 Claremont McKenna College $64,325
#9 Oberlin College $64,266
#10 Scripps College $64,260
#11 Bard College $64,254
#12 Haverford College $64,216
#13 Duke University $64,188
#14 Dartmouth College $64,134
#15
Northwestern University $63,983
#16 Trinity College $63,970
#17 Pitzer College $63,880
#18 Southern Methodist University $63,840
#19 Amherst College $63,772
#20 John Hopkins University $63,750
Source: Business Insider and U.S. Department of Education
To my amazement only two Ivy League schools, Columbia and Dartmouth, made the list.
Now compare that to a list of the best colleges and universities in the world for 2016.
Source: The
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016
Sorry rest of the world, but fourteen of the top twenty are from the United States, including six of the top ten. Harvard is the highest ranking Ivy League school but six of the eight Ivy League schools are in the top twenty in the world.
What does this all mean? Here in the colonies it seems the more other schools catch up with the Ivy League in terms of the number of schools and the cost of education, the stronger those dastardly Ivy League schools get control of our presidency and political processes.
Harvard was the first university in America founded in 1636. By 1800 six of the first 16 universities in America were Ivy League, 37%. Now the Ivy League represents less than one percent of institutions of higher education. In spite of that we are completing 28 straight years of presidents from just two Ivy League schools, Harvard and Yale, and along comes Hillary seeking to extend that Ivy stranglehold on the presidency to 36 straight years.
Isn't it about time we give someone else a chance like The California Institute of Technology, Stanford, MIT, Slippery Rock, or even The Pennsylvania State University New Kensington Campus of the Commonwealth College, (the longest college name in the USA)?
I was going to attend Yale for undergraduate and Harvard Law for graduate school but fate had other plans for me and I wound up at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I loved. But in spite of my Ivy loyalty even I think enough is enough, give someone else a chance to lead us.
Besides, with Hillary now making $225,000 per speech, more than her annual salary as Secretary of State, she really does not need the experience any more of the brutality of public service.
How is this for a dilemma? Do you become president at $400,000 a year and spend 24/7 365 days a year tearing out your rapidly thinning hair and getting fat at state dinners, or do you work about an hour a day for two days and make the same amount without all the BS.
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Besides, Bill Clinton showed us the way with his $100 million in earnings the few years after he was broke as president. Same with his VP Gore, also a Harvard grad, and a host of other politicians. Why would Hillary want any less?
The only glass ceiling she needs to shatter is the one holding the millions of dollars she will be making.
When Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's annual salary was $186,600 making her the fourth highest paid government official in the United States behind the President ($400,000), the Vice President ($225,551) and Secretary of Treasury ($191,300).
Now she makes more giving a one hour speech. Hillary, you and the Clinton family (Yale) have done enough for America, as have the Bush family (Yale and Harvard). Of course if she loses, in steps Donald Trump giving The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School their first president, yet another of those pesky Ivy League schools.
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