A little too long for my taste. The shrimp on the buffet table would be way warm by the time this speech ended.

The first couple of paragraphs were very nice, and he's right, you know -- we're graded the rest of our lives, and parents recover tuition costs from their children very subtly. I don't think it matters whether one attends Vassar, though.

After the first section, it begins to resemble a sermon, and as sermons go, I think I would rather have listened to this one.

Regards--
Mary Anne

PS just for Tom-- Why do you continue to do this to yourself? You know this kind of stuff drives your blood pressure through the roof! Just say "No", Tom, just say "No"... ;)