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Originally posted by piqué:

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:
Math professor at Harvard, if I recall.

I thought it was MIT. He was told he could remain on the faculty or he could be an entertainer. Not both.

My bad. I just looked it up. He studied at Harvard and taught at MIT.

Harvard does feature in his corpus with mention at the end of The Elements and, of course, the song Fight Fiercely Harvard which, according to my mother, is to the tune of the Yale fight song (I wouldnt' know).


My father used to tell the joke: In a grocery store in Cambridge, Massachusetts a young man gets up to the front of the express lane with a very full shopping cart. The cashier looks at him, looks at the cart, looks at him and asks, "so tell me, are you from Harvard and can't count or are you from MIT and can't read?"