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Harvard’s Segregated Gym

March 28, 2008 - 12:55 am - by Annie Jacobsen
Jim C.
2008-03-28 15:47:15

A quibble: the frog comparison is an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

Here’s another way of putting it (if you don’t mind the religious context): “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

from “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis