That item from Friday I mentioned — about Yale, and students, and so on? Okay, I ended it this way: “Maybe now the kids are alright, to borrow an old lyric?” Several readers wrote in to say, “Jay, I’m shocked that you knew a Who song!” Well, I really didn’t — it’s just that, years ago, our literary editor, Mike Potemra, used “The Kids Are Alright” as a title over some review. That’s how I learned of the song.

Also, at least one reader wrote in to say that she was shocked — shocked! — that I had written “alright,” instead of “all right.” Rome had fallen, or at least I had. Actually, that’s the way the lyric is, from Pete Townshend’s pen — and Mikey P. taught me that too!