We freely bestow all kinds of titles, honors and other such crap in
this country. Nothing means anything anymore. There was a time, for
example, when being on the Dean's List was an achievement. Now, I
understand at places such as Harvard, the percentage of students on
the Dean's List exceeds 50. It may even be more than that. (Unless
publicity in the past few years has shamed them into giving it real
meaning again. I dunno. Don't spend that much time keeping up with
what's going on at Harvard.) They've raised pretentiousness to the
level of high art down there.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On May 5, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Always amazes me how freely the title 'professor' gets bestowed in
> the US.
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