I am delighted to read that more than four-hundred students graduating from Harvard Business School swore at an unofficial ceremony the day before they received their degrees that they would, among other things, “serve the greater good,” “act with the utmost integrity,” and guard against “decisions and behavior that advances my own narrow interests” (“Foreswearing Greed,” June 6, 2009). “You may snigger,” you add. Far from it, though. I would only wish that graduates from all other schools would also consider such a virtuous oath. Last but far from least, I would encourage art students to do the same, for they, too, cannot but contribute to greed that ravishes our society. In fact, it is art that now symbolizes this vice in its most pernicious forms, as witnessed by astronomic prices that art objects had reached just before the onset of the current economic crisis. Would that artists would follow managers at their most virtuous.