Can you please shorten the front page posts that’s hard to scroll through.

Because they aren’t willing to grant it “educational” value. They think it is frivolous and mindless.

That said, I am on my way to a basketball game!

Maybe you should stop trusting your HP-12C. 0.25% of profits is bigger than the number you put there, by at least one decimal place, not to mention that this doesn’t include the salary that presumes these people will be adding value to the company, and the (presumed) lack of similar percentage deductions should anyone lose the company a large sum of money.

As for how their activities make us better off, they remind us that some Williams alums are making more in a year than other Williams alums will make in a lifetime. Everyone needs a memento mori, right? I suppose it’s worth noting that the rift at Williams between the haves and have-nots doesn’t end at graduation.

On a lighter note, it also helps the rest of us by telling us how to make a healthy lunch fit for a millionaire.

Instead of arguing the role of this or that in collegiate life, why don’t administrators and deans take a queue from the activites the students choose to participate in? In the late 1800’s it was baseball and american football among countless others. In the late fiftes Rugby was the new extra-curricular student’s chose.

I have friends, who in defense students’ participation in athletics, have attributed some of their own success in their chosen profession to lessons and skills learned during their intercollegiate athletic experience. I have no reason to doubt them and many reasons to admire their accomplishments.

It has a bit of “The Daily Show” in it. Not my area of interest normally…but this story does make one understand just how exciting Wall Street could be.

However, just as the wheels in my head were turning…anticipating coming up with some “jock-defending” comment about how Swenson’s athletic endeavors could be given the credit for his powerful competitive spirt, you came up with this:

“I don’t think that playing hockey gave this to Swenson. Instead that drive made him a better hockey player.”

Interesting comment and “food for thought”.

I have often wondered if Williams efforts to bring smart athletes into the school, were calculated on the recognition of the traits (that already exist in competitive types), that drive them to later financial success.

Many brilliant people don’t give a hoot about making huge bucks. But if a school can produce grads that are driven to achieve academic laurels and grads that are driven to achieve financial success, they then have alumni that promote and sustain the school in all ways.

I’m sure it all makes sense somehow.