Regarding Allan Ripp’s “Take It From an Almost-Harvard Man” (op-ed, Nov. 27 and Keith Cravens’s letter of Dec. 3): The mystique of Harvard and Yale was not lost on the novelist William Faulkner. The 20-year-old future Noble Prize winner spent a few months in New Haven, Connecticut, while visiting his friend Phil Stone, a student at Yale. In his early novel, “Mosquitoes” (1927), Faulkner wrote of the colleges’ vast influence:“I guess there is a time in life of every . [college-bound] young American, . when he wants...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 09, 2018 18:33 UTC