-"on the benefits of university"

This should cheer you up. From a review by Martha Nussbaum, of EXCELLENCE WITHOUT A SOUL. How a great university forgot education. By Harry R. Lewis. 288pp. New York: PublicAffairs. $26. - 1 58648 393 5.in TLS July 14

Of the eighteen US Presidents since 1900, however, only seven went, as undergraduates, to any Ivy League institution.
(Harry Truman never went to college at all.) Among the various people who represent or govern me as a resident of Illinois, only one had even a passing connection, as an undergraduate, to the Ivy League. I conjecture that a similar story would emerge from a study of leaders in business, journalism and the arts. Bill Gates himself dropped out of Harvard in his third year and never finished college