Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.