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Although Harvard produces "a goodly number of intellectuals, individuals, and other eccentrics," many of its graduates are possessed with "all the worldly virtues of Yale and Princeton men," an article in the November Columbia Alumni News asserts.
The article, entitled "Wanted: An Unfinished Student," discusses the failings of the typical Columbia student and compares him with his colleagues in Cambridge, Princeton, and New Haven. The author is Richard Chase, an associate professor of English at Columbia.
Chase distinguishes the Harvard graduate from the Yale or Princeton product, declaring that he "is sure to have carried away with him a trace of genteel bohemianism and a slight distaste for the boosting, back-slapping, and self-ingratiating activities" of the "practical" professions.
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