re: #27 Anymouse 🌹

Princeton (my alma mater) was strictly for WASP men of means for a long, long time. Each time a new group was admitted — Catholics, Jews, blacks, the working classes — the Old Guard protested, saying the institution would be ruined. In the late 1960s, Princeton began admitting women, and the Old Guard went bonkers, and while I was there in the late 70s, there was a very active group, the Conservative Alumni of Princeton (CAP), still going on about how coeducation was the downfall of Princeton. One of CAP’s most vocal reps was a young alum whose name escapes me now, but he’d fit right in with modern day cons like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro.

Since I graduated, Princeton has had a female president and a Jewish president, and somehow it has survived and even thrived. Amazing, huh?