School on Monday

Every year, Yale students and alums have a chance to get together, drink copious amounts of alcohol, and act as elitist as we want to. The fun in Cambridge notwithstanding, we lost The Game versus Harvard today, and in horrible fashion. Amazingly, it was televised even here in Canada (on WGN), and I saw the Bulldogs lose for the fourth year in a row, a feat not accomplished by either school's team since the 1920s. Fellow Yalie Patrick Belton had the pre-game scoop on OxBlog -- a prognosis which held up after events unfolded on the field:

The Bad Guys, for their part, will wrap up not only the Ivy League title but their first 10-victory season in 98 years; which, as a consolation prize, is roughly how long it's been since one of their alumni has served a complete term as president.... (Have we mentioned, incidentally, that Steven Hadley (YLS '72) has just become national security advisor? Harvard gets the Ivy League football championship...Yale the presidency, National Security Council, and of course, CIA.)

So that's some consolation. Oh yeah, and they have school on Monday. And a stranglehold on the likely nominees for the presidency in '08. But I'll get to that later.