The term “ Ivy League ” traditionally conjured a distinctive set of characteristics. One thought of excellence, brilliance, prestige, and tradition. The particular schools making up the Ivies were considered the best schools to attend, establishing a near-guaranteed path to success on campus and in a future career.

Near in reputation was another set of schools, such as the University of Chicago or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which considered themselves to reside at the mountaintop of American, even world university education. In such environs, the best minds cultivated the best thinking for the good of oneself and for the good of fellow human beings.

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The recent disastrous congressional hearing that featured three of these top schools’ presidents has elicited quite different responses as a result of these past assumptions. The heads of Harvard and Penn, joined by the president of MIT, testified last week before a House committee about antisemitism on college campuses. These........

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