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An Observer
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Date Posted: 17:52:49 12/05/24 Thu
In reply to:
Go Green
's message, "Just going by a contemporaneous SI article" on 12:29:58 12/04/24 Wed
GG,
I'll give you two responses:
(1) We live in an era in which public leaders routinely say, "I've heard. . ." or "People say. . ." and then go off in a direction which cannot substantiated in any other way other than that initial "People say" preface.
Don't do that. Every time that you make a supposition you present as reasoned which has no foundation in fact, you diminish the conversation and you diminish yourself. You're better than that.
I've searched for your purported Sports Illustrated article and I can't find it despite having its verbatim title and details of its contents. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, but your referring to a specific article which can't be found easily on the internet raises the usual questions. Would love a link.
(2) Nobody here really needs to read that SI article to know that, from any incomplete set of facts, your knee jerk reaction is to blame somebody at Princeton.
I personally don't have any problem with that whatsoever. As I said in the thread about Michigan-Ohio State, rivalries are the cherries on top of the sundae of the regular season. We love them. Sometimes we define ourselves by whom we choose to hate.
So all that's cool.
But you, personally, are in a unique position. You have an impressive encyclopedic memories for all things Dartmouth, most things Princeton and many things Ivy League. That gives you a credibility which many of us do not have.
That you marry an unsurpassed knowledge of facts with a knee jerk, fantasy-based, reality-unhinged suspicion of Princeton as some kind of all-knowing, all-powerful behind the scenes manipulator of the Ivy League diminishes your otherwise credible knowledge.
I'll grant you that, collectively, HYP carry much much much more weight than the other five members of our conference. But the fact that the League office issued its infamous press release after the 2021 Harvard-Princeton game suggests that Princeton is not at the top of the power structure. It's probably H-P in that order. I'll give you that.
I actually find your Princeton diatribes very entertaining, but at a time in this country's history when the line between facts and fantasy has become increasingly blurred, those who know facts have an obligation to present them accurately when possible.
Aim higher. You don't owe it to us as much as you owe it to yourself.
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