On this day in 1908, Harvard University voted to create what became the Harvard Business School. Future historians, in searching for a date to mark the beginning of the long slide toward the new Dark Ages, will fix on April 8, 1908, the way current historians fix on Alaric’s sack of Rome as the beginning of the slide into the previous Dark Ages.

Also, if you search for “Sack of Rome” in Wikipedia, you find that sacking Rome is a very popular sport.