Engineering Council / daycare-center joke

Used to set up the "you're right too" rabbi parable in §3.p8. The only time Tom saw Joel Moses not laugh at a joke.

In fact, that brings up the old Joel Moses story. Joel Moses was the head of Electrical Engineering, then Dean of Engineering, and then Provost here at MIT. Joel's now retired. He had a big beard, very rabbinical — in fact he had some rabbinical training. They always like to tell the story when he was head of Electrical Engineering and they just hired Hesus [Jesús] del Alamo as a faculty member. Joel wrote a letter telling [Jesús] that he was being offered the job as an assistant professor. He says, "Dear Jesus, welcome to the promised land. Moses." So Joel had some humor. The only time I didn't see him laugh at a joke — he used to have the head of Civil Engineering tell a joke to begin every Engineering Council meeting. This particular head of Civil Engineering was on his last day on Engineering Council, he was stepping down, and Joel says, well tell us your last joke. And the guy says, what's the difference between an Engineering Council and a daycare center? Nobody knew. And the answer was, a daycare center has adult leadership. Joel didn't laugh at that. He didn't particularly appreciate that joke. I thought it was pretty good myself.