In “To Build a Better Bonfire, Say Farewell to the Big Three” (September issue), my good friend Henry Von Kohorn ’66 states the painful truth that “The Big Three” is a fiction to everyone but Princeton. Having known Henry for over 60 years. I can attest to his inability to refrain from telling the truth. He is the kind of guy who would tell the emperor not only that he had no clothes, but also that he was ugly.
I have a single quibble with the essay. Unlike Henry, I have not succumbed to the vanity of the bonfires. I would eliminate them.