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<p>Apparently they ran out of names for the other elements also discovered at Berkeley. Most would agree that Einsteinium, Lawrencium, Seaborgium, etc. will sound better than UCBium?</p>
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<p>Lafayette vs Lehigh is the most often played college football rivalry in the country. This year fall will be the 144th meeting (they played more than once per year in the early days).</p>
<p>BTW, Lafayette has won the last 4 years in a row. Lafayette students spent the last few minutes of last year’s game chanting: “Four more years! Four more years!”</p>
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<p>Good one Lafalum. Let me add my two cents:</p>
<p>Fordham plays Columbia every year for the rights to the city Liberty Cup.</p>
<p>Vince Lombardi may have coached the Green Bay Packers and won the first two Super Bowls, but he was from the Bronx and went to Fordham and played football for them as a member of the Wall of Granite.</p>
<p>Their athletic center is named for Vince Lombardi.</p>
<p>In D1-A, its Minnesota vs. Wisconsin. If you include all schools, its Lafayette vs. Lehigh</p>
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<p>the full name of W&M is “The College of William and Mary in Virginia”, as given by King William III and Queen Mary II, and is the reason that W&M retains its “College” name even though it is a university (and the oldest university in the US)</p>
<p>W&M is believed to be home to the first honor system.</p>
<p>W&M boasts its own Crypt under the Wren Building (and a graveyard, but I’m sure many schools have a graveyard)</p>
<p>W&M hosted Queen Elizabeth II not once, but twice</p>
<p>W&M has faced Richmond in football the 4th most of any two schools, and is sometimes referred to as “the oldest rivalry in the south”</p>
<p>Actually, isn’t Penn the oldest university?</p>
<p>actually, Wesleyan has a graveyard; it’s said to have inspired “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.</p>
<p>also,</p>
<p>a football field in the center of campus</p>
<p>and, the Wesleyan Center for the Arts (CFA) is probably the largest collection of 20th century buildings constructed in the classic “post and beam” manner of ancient Greece – outside of Greece itself.</p>
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<p>Holy Cross has a cemetary too.</p>
<p>nocousin:
Lake Superior State University has 3,371 students enrolled.
W&M: More than 5,000 undergrads.</p>
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<p>^^ California Maritime Academy has fewer than 1000 students. (CSU Monterey Bay and CSU Channel Islands have ~4,000 and ~3,500 students, respectively.)</p>
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<p>Thanks gettinin. </p>
<p>Also, Fordham has a cemetery on campus…in the middle of it, next to the University Church…the Church with the stained glass windows given by the King of France, intended for St. Patricks Cathedral (then under construction) and somehow pilfered by “Dagger John” Hughes, D.D., the first Archbishop of New York and founder of Fordham University…then called St. John’s College.</p>
<p>Rutgers, founded by ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, has a statute of William of Orange (Willie the Silent) on campus. A state university, it also has the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in the middle of its campus, which claims to be the first seminary in North America having been founded in 1784. It is a teaching institution of the Reformed Church in America. </p>
<p>What is recognized as the first college football game, Rutgers beat Princeton in 1869, was played on the Rutgers campus.</p>
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<p>Most of the members of [Council</a> on Public Liberal Arts Colleges](<a href=“http://www.coplac.org/]Council”>http://www.coplac.org/) are public LAC’s that are smaller than William and Mary. Some even use “college” in their name. Note that New College of Florida (well-regarded, BTW) has about 750 students.</p>
<p>Let me put in a plug for these schools as potentially cheaper places to receive an LAC education, even at OOS rates, than private LAC’s.</p>
<p>And, of course, there are scores of public “universities” that are not LAC’s which nevertheless have fewer than 5,800 students.</p>
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<p>TS: Indeed…Rutgers used to be a private school. Most private schools in the Northeast had a religious foundation, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth (with the singular exception of Cornell…those atheists! Just kidding.)</p>
<p>Year Founded
Institution Founded Founding religious affiliation
Harvard University[15] 1636, but named Harvard College in 1639 Puritan Congregationalist; sided with the Unitarians in their 1825 split from Congregationalists
Yale University 1701 as Collegiate School Congregationalist
University of Pennsylvania 1740[16] Nonsectarian,[17] but founded by Church of England members[18][19]
Princeton University 1746 as College of New Jersey Nonsectarian, but founded by Presbyterians[20]
Columbia University 1754 as King’s College Church of England
Brown University 1764 as College of Rhode Island Baptist, but founding charter promises “no religious tests” and “full liberty of conscience”[21]
Dartmouth College 1769 Congregationalist
Cornell University 1865 Nonsectarian </p>
<p>Brandeis and Yeshiva: Jewish. </p>
<p>The 28 Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States including: Georgetown, BC, Holy Cross, Fordham, St. Louis University, Creighton, Loyolas (LA, Chicago, Maryland, New Orleans) Seattle Univ, Gonzaga, Scranton, Santa Clara Univ., Marquette, Canisius.</p>
<p>Providence College: Dominican Fathers, and the other 18 Domincan Colleges.
The 21 Franciscan Colleges including: Siena, Franciscan-Steubanville, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis, Villa Maria College
Villanova University: Augustinian Fathers.
Notre Dame Univ.: Holy Cross Fathers.
The 7 Christian Bros. Colleges: Christian Brothers College, Memphis; College of Santa Fe; La Salle; Lewis University; Manhattan College; Saint Mary’s College, California; and Saint Mary’s College, Minnesota. </p>
<p>The 31 Lutheran Colleges in the US (not counting the 10 or so Concordia College campuses)
Sewanee-University of the South (Episcopal Church)
The 51 Baptist and Southern Baptist Colleges.
The formerly Southern Baptist Colleges: Wake Forest, Furman, Univ of Richmond.
The 63 Presbyterian Colleges including: College of Ozarks, Centre, Davidson, Eckerd, Lafayette, Grove City, Hampden Sydney, Macalaster, Mary Baldwin, Muskingum, Presbyterian (SC), Rhodes, Trinity, Tulsa, Warren Wilson, Whitworth College (Wa.).</p>
<p>In fact MOST private colleges have or had a distinct religious heritage and/or foundation.<br>
On and on.</p>
<p>Then there is Temple University, which is a public state supported university and not religious, but started as Temple College.</p>
<p>And Lehigh University, founded by Asa Packer as a technical university, but named after his love of railroads.</p>
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<p>The Methodists have been pretty prolific too. I’m guessing every school with Wesleyan in it name is/was Methodist as is/was Duke.</p>
<p>Back in the mid70s, Carleton hosted the only NCAA-sanctioned metric football game against St. Olaf in what was called the “Liter Bowl”</p>
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<p>google “the only college to” or “the only college in the us” and you get all sorts of interesting tidbits</p>
<p>One of the members of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, Georgia College & State University, is in the former capital of the state, Milledgeville. The centerpiece of its campus is the 1838 Georgia Governor’s Mansion, which has been restored to its appearance circa 1851. It’s one of the most remarkable and historic buildings on any college campus in the U.S.</p>
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<p>Haverford is the only U.S. college with a varsity cricket team. Makes scheduling kind of tough, though.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr has as its unofficial protectress the Greek goddess Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom. They have a statue of Athena where students leave offerings before exams. Athena’s owl is the school’s mascot.</p>
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<p>TS: Righto…Emory, Wesleyan, SMU are the most prominent…but a bunch of smaller Wesleyans also exist. Thanks.</p>