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Nasty scratch

Published on
November 4, 1994
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945) provides sideswipe no 90: "Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coastguard. Usually you find nothing at all."

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