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The first is found in Julius Caesar, in the pithy remark that Caesar makes to Brutus in Act I, Scene 2: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.” There are two keys to understanding Shakespearean Tragedy. Here is why Shakespeare, in particular, should remain in the Yale curriculum, no matter how dumbed-down the latter has become in order to accommodate “persons of color,” whose value to Yale might be better served on its janitorial staff. The fact that Shakespeare is the greatest and most widely-quoted author in the history of literature carries no weight with these intellectual Bolsheviks, as confident in their erudition as they are in their own moral superiority. This student petition parrots the usual complaints of too many “dead white males” in its course on “Major English Poets,” and demands their removal in favor of more authors who are nigro, queer or some alternative but acceptable form of semi-literate poseur. Holt III - Anyone needing further evidence that our institutions of “higher learning” are generating Marxists, illiterates and dolts need only look at a recent student petition submitted to the Yale Faculty demanding the removal of Shakespeare from much of its curriculum.