Oh, you mean that Harvard!

Another example of the Journalese Law of Curved Yellow Fruit (a.k.a. banana) from The Boston Globe, May 11, 2017:

“Archivists from Harvard University have released what they say is the earliest known voice recording of the late president John F. Kennedy, a nearly two-minute clip of the future politician as a young man that was made while he studied at the renowned Cambridge institution.”

This, of course, makes sure that readers of the Globe are made fully aware that JFK went to the Harvard that is a renowned Cambridge institution, and not some other Harvard.

File under: The Curved Yellow Fruit Law rules again.
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