York when black radicals bearing assault rifles rousted visiting parents out of bed on parents’ weekend in 1969 and demanded concessions from the university administration—which were granted, over the objections of the faculty. He left for the University of Toronto the following year. The indigestibility and the radicalism were two sides of the same coin, as Bloom saw it. “Cornell,” he wrote, “now had a large number of students who were manifestly unqualified and unprepared, and therefore it faced an inevitable choice: fail most of them or pass them without their having learned. . . . Black
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