If Harvard wants to be a networking club for the rich, that's fine, but then it should be cut off from public funding. Cutting off public funds would obliterat

If Harvard wants to be a networking club for the rich, that's fine, but then it should be cut off from public funding. Cutting off public funds would obliterate Harvard's research output overnight. NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE and other government agencies fund virtually all fundamental scientific research in the United States. Without government funding, most professors (at least in science and engineering) would immediately leave for places where they could access public funding. Harvard should decide what's more important to it: networking or world-class research?