New from Harvard Extension School

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I think it just burns some people that the Ivory Tower, Ivy League Harvard whose existence we must all quiver at, whose students are the children of the mytical Greek Gods allows simple ordinary mortals to attend.

It's just a bloody school.

Some guy out there makes 500 million a year and his son goes to Harvard, I may be just as smart or smater thean him and cant go why? Because of money? Because I dont have connection? Because I wasn't born in the US?

Its education at it's finest. Prove you are worthy to study there and hey, welcome to the family.

That is the basis of the HES. President Lowell had more vision than any people bashing the school can fathom, and the people talking down about the school can't walk in this man's shoe.

The guy has more accomplishemnts to his name than many of us ever hope to achieve in his lifetime. When you did as much as he did, then you can bash his vision. An American hero whom you all should be proud that he had such vision. I salute you sir.

When you bash the HES, you bash the vision of your forefathers. I may not be an American, but in my country we call that being the Hindi word 'neemakaram' , and is dishonorable.

Say what you want, when you become president of Harvard do as you wish.

Until that time, I'll be congratulating those who graduate HES, as President Lowell envisioned.

LOL. President Lowell went to Harvard College and Harvard Law, not a school of professional studies. Harvard Extension, under him, was created to only award associate of art degrees, and students complained because they weren't earning bachelor's degrees like everyone else. When other schools started offering two-year degrees called "associate of arts," he believed the AA degree name had become defiled. 

1. He did not want Extension students to earn the same degree as other Harvard students. 
2. He thought other schools offering the AA degree defiled the name because these schools weren't on Harvard's level. 

He was the definition of "uppity." 

Are you saying that because Jeff Bezos is one of the wealthiest men in the world that his vision for the Amazon warehouse is good for his warehouse employees? Jeff Bezos certainly is smart, but it does not mean that he has everyone's best interest in mind. If President Lowell actually cared about potential applicants who weren't wealthy, he would have gotten rid of legacy, children of employees, and wealthy donor admissions creating a truly equal admissions process instead of segregating poorer students into an extension school.