Wall Street's low prestige spilled over into academic priorities. At the Harvard Business School, the course on investments was unpopular with students and was allocated an undesirable lunchtime slot, earning it the unflattering sobriquet "Darkness at Noon" (Bernstein 1992, p. 110). "[A]cademic suspicion about the stock market as an object of scholarly research" was sufficiently entrenched that in 1959 the statistician Harry Roberts of the University of Chicago could describe it as "traditional" (1959, p. 3).

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 201