The boosterism is back 

There has been an explosion of academic boosterism in this article. 

The opening paragraphs are nothing but one brag after another. 

This would be good material for an Admissions Department brochure... except that I'll bet Yale's admissions department has better taste than that. Please, somebody, do something, before every other university article, unwilling to be outbragged by Yale, fills their opening paragraphs with unique and distinguished and prestigious and selective and so forth.

And guys, I'm sorry, but your endowment is second to Harvard's and nobody cares you jigger the figures to show how it really is, in a way, if considered properly, larger. 

Lux et vanitas, for sure.  (talk)