<p>gettinin: I wasnt picking at you…just that I thought that a few other scandanavian schools might offer it…or Lutheran schools. Its still interesting.</p>
<p>Irish Studies is FAIRLY unique…that is…uncommon…you can major in Irish Studies at BC or Fordham, for example. But its offered only as Minor at University of Montana. (Are there a lot of Irish cowboys out there? Just kidding.)</p>
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<p>nocousin. . . no offense taken at all. I just wanted to find another one to replace St. Olaf on my list, and I happened to think of McPherson.</p>
<p>I’d also throw in Nebraska Wesleyan for their “Xtreme Rat Challenge.” [Psychology</a> Department - Nebraska Wesleyan University](<a href=“http://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/depts/psyc/xtreme.htm]Psychology”>http://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/depts/psyc/xtreme.htm)</p>
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<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060801191-post45.html]#45[/url]”>quote</a>…UChicago has Fermi Lab and the Teletron, and Stanford has its SLAC Linear Particle Accelerator…</p>
<p>It seems ppl’s definition of ‘Absolutely Unique’ is all over the place lol.
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<p>The specific observation was [A</a> particle accelerator below the campus](<a href=“http://www.lns.cornell.edu/Research/AP/CESR/]A”>CLASSE: CESR) with a link to a picture illustrating this.</p>
<p>Fermi Lab is located in [Batavia</a>, IL](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermilab]Batavia”>Fermilab - Wikipedia) while the Univ. of Chicago campus is located in [Hyde</a> Park, Il.](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_chicago]Hyde”>University of Chicago - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Stanford’s SLAC is located in Menlo Park while the campus is in Palo Alto as illustrated by [this</a> map](<a href=“http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/maps/slacarea.html#areaMap]this”>http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/maps/slacarea.html#areaMap) on the SLAC website.</p>
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<p>Having a campus on the shore of Lake Michigan, including a “lakefill” that required presidential authorization. Go U, NU!</p>
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<p>William & Mary-</p>
<p>-oldest academic building still in use in USA
-only public school that was private for 200 yrs/benefit is all the history and prestige of Dartmouth/Brown at the price of Va Tech.</p>
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<p>Rutgers was also private for many years as was the University of Pittsburgh and several others. All went public for the same reason–near or actual bankruptcy. Hardly a great accomplishment.</p>
<p>UMass-Amherst has a very tall library in which every other floor is empty. The architects miscalculated by forgetting to factor in the weight of the books. When all the floors were full with books the building flexed and windows fell out.</p>
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<p>And William and Mary was CHARTERED by the King of England. And is the smallest public college in the United States and is older than Harvard and the alma mater of SEVERAL of our forefathers, including Thomas Jefferson, who later was the father of the University of Virginia.</p>
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<p>Arbiter - I’d also add Northwestern’s Waa-Mu. Come see all your classmates before they become famous! </p>
<p>Besides, Stephen Colbert, who was in my class. Case closed.</p>
<p>U.S. Naval Academy:</p>
<p>-Truly requires “An Act of Congress” to get admitted (Congressional Nomination Needed)
-Toughest Public School in the Country to get into (13% admit rate)
-Everyone gets a bachelor of science due to core curriculum regardless of major
-0$ Tuition
-Everyone serves as a Navy or Marine Corps officer for at least 5 years after graduation
-The campus is a sanctioned military base
-5th Most Rhodes Scholars (45 awardees)</p>
<p>Alumni:
Sen. John McCain (2008 Repulican Nominee for President of US)
H. Ross Perot (Businessman net worth $50 billion, presidential candidate)
Jimmy Carter (39th President of US, Nobel Prize Winner)
Albert Michelson (helped discover the speed of light constant “c”)
David Robinson (NBA hall of famer known as “The Admiral”, rookie of the year in 1990)
Roger Staubach (Heisman Trophy Winner, NFL Hall of Fame, two time superbowl winning quarterback)
Montel Williams (Hosts own talk show)
Sen. Jim Webb (Virginia, possible Dem. VP candidate)
Alan Shephard (First Man in Space)
Wendy Lawrence (First Woman in Space)</p>
<p>[USNA</a> Honorable Graduates](<a href=“http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Notables/]USNA”>http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Notables/)</p>
<p>Cornell,</p>
<p>The only university who’s official fight song is about drinking and flunking out and not about glory or sports victories.</p>
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<p>^ Not really. Look up the lyrics to “Ramblin’ Wreck” (Georgia Tech’s fight song).</p>
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<p>UCLA – closest University to the Playboy Mansion (about a mile)</p>
<p>They obviously had few college choices back then. The King of England was a tyrant.</p>
<p>Harvard Univ. Cambridge, Mass. 1636
Coll. of William & Mary Williamsburg, Va. 1693
Yale Univ. New Haven, Conn. 1701
Princeton Univ. Princeton, N.J. 1746
Columbia Univ. New York City 1754
Univ. of Penn. Philadelphia, Penn. 1757
Brown Univ. Providence, R.I. 1764
Rutgers New Brunswick, N.J. 1766
Dartmouth Coll. Hanover, N.H. 1769</p>
<p>Barnard and Bard also require a thesis as does Reed. I’m sure there are others. Princeton is not alone in that.</p>
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<p>Barron’s: thanks for correcting my history…Harvard was chartered before William and Mary. It is indeed the Second College in the American Colonies.</p>
<p>King William a tyrant? I am shocked, shocked, shocked! LOL.</p>
<p>nocousin, when you say William and Mary is smallest, are you talking about area or student body? I think there’s a slew of public liberal arts colleges that have fewer students than William and Mary.</p>
<p>My understanding is its the smallest PUBLIC college in the US, by student body, as in a STATE SCHOOL. Correct me if I am wrong. Its actually a full university but retains the name “College” because of its charter.</p>
<p>Also, Phi Beta Kappa, the premier academic honor society in America, was founded by College of William & Mary students in 1776.</p>
<p>Stonehill College has a Shovel Museum on campus.</p>
<p>Stonehill’s campus is on the grounds of the former Oliver Ames mansion. Ames made his fortune by patenting the bend in the shovel handle (makes the shovel easier to use)… Ames shovels are apparently well-known.</p>
<p>According to our tour guide, the Ames family was Protestant. Their son married a nice Catholic girl, and the rest of the family never really accepted her. Somehow enough people died that she ended up inheriting the mansion & estate, and she decided the best way to really irritate the rest of the family was to sell the entire thing to the Congregation of the Holy Cross (the folks who run Notre Dame) for $1, to be the site of a Catholic College. Today the Holy Cross Fathers run Stonehill College, site of said Shovel Museum.</p>
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