Graduation Week With Common Sense – by Bari Weiss
Here s something worth remembering: The founders of Yale were Congregationalists who believed that Harvard had become too theologically lax. Princeton was started by men who were frustrated with Harvard and Yale s opposition to a Presbyterian movement frustrated enough to settle their new school in New Jersey. The point is that everything we now regard as institutional and prestigious started as something scrappy built by people who were pissed off about the status quo and decided they weren t going to wait around for someone else to fix it.
So, given the commencement ceremonies taking place around the country, we give you our inaugural graduation week. Happy summer.