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Re:Poison Ivy: Are Élite Colleges Bad for the Soul? by cafard on Friday August 29, 2014 @05:47PM (#8244666)
Evidently, if they make you use French accents on words long since naturalized in English.

I have at this point in my life read so much about education, enough of it about the high end, that though I imagine William Deresiewicz's book is interesting, I will not read it. Let's quit worrying about the Ivy soul. Tell me how things are at Auburn or Colorado School of Mines, and maybe I'll pay attention.

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Re:Poison Ivy: Are Élite Colleges Bad for the Soul? by MaysonL on Saturday August 30, 2014 @07:37AM (#8246179)
It seems to be a recent affectation, vide this from 1925: [0], although note that it isn't enforced on the sports pages: [1] or on Malcolm Gladwell: [2]

[0]http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1925/09/19/st-elite

[1]http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/kevin-wares-gri...

[2]http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/complexity-and-...

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