<p>Marquette U has the oldest building in the western hemisphere that is used for its original purpose. it’s a tiny little chapel that was built in France a long time ago (forgot the year… i think 1400’s, but don’t quote me). It was taken down, brick for brick, and rebuilt the exact same way somewhere in NE before being moved again to Marquette.</p>
<p>ooops. somebody already said this on page 7. hadn’t gotten there yet. oh well</p>
<p>Meh, there are good stuff 2 miles away from Harvard. I live 1.5 miles away from Harvard. There are good stuff. ::roll eyes::</p>
<p>Boston University</p>
<p>-Has a lazy river
-Founded first as the Newbury Biblical Institue in Vermont. Moved to New Hampshire changing its name to Methodist General Biblical Institute of Concord. Later on, established as Boston University in Boston, MA.
-The Dean is available every Friday in the Howard Thurman Center to converse with students about world issues, politics, just anything.
-The BU Bridge is the only place in America where a plane can fly over a car driving over a train going over a boat at the same time.</p>
<p>^and a pedestrian walk over too…and bike under as well…</p>
<p>Hong Kong I believe has a double decker previously the world’s longest suspension bridge that has bike lane, walk lane, double decker subway, and car, and airplane as a matter of fact. Yes, you can land an airplane on it.</p>
<p>I think its better to say that BU owns that bridge…one of the few universities in the world that own and maintains the bridge privately…? Am I correct or am I wrong?</p>
<p>Brown has the world’s best (and only) ice skating band.</p>
<p>what about berkeley?</p>
<p>what about it?^</p>
<p>Some unique things about Berkeley:</p>
<p>There’s a hyena pack that they’ve been breeding for many years in the surrounding hills.</p>
<p>There are a few elements named after the school.</p>
<p>The water in Berkeley is supposedly higher-quality than bottled water.</p>
<p>The Play</p>
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<p>Barnard: Only liberal arts college in NYC.</p>
<p>Only separate liberal arts college part of an Ivy.</p>
<p>Only women’s college part of a university.</p>
<p>Only women’s college where a significant portion of your classes will be at a major university (average 30%).</p>
<p>St. Louis University owns and operates a separate Jesuit Campus in Madrid Spain, St. Louis University-Madrid, where you can spend all four years, or a year or two. Its the only non Spanish school (foreign owned) officially sanctioned by the Spanish Government in Spain.</p>
<p>dcircle:</p>
<p>The D-Plan is definitely not a standard quarter system, as is used by Northwestern, Stanford, the Univ of Chicago and other quarter schools.</p>
<p>I think Colgate’s the only school where the number 13 is lucky! Founded by 13 men with 13 dollars and 13 prayers, the address is 13 Oak Drive, and the zip code is 13346 (last three add up to 13).</p>
<p>The Colgate Maroon-News is the oldest college weekly newspaper in the country. The 1936 swim team’s training trip to FL became a tradition that became the national spring break phenomenon as we know it today.</p>
<p>Also the toothpaste thing…</p>
<p>Bennington College in Vermont is pretty unique.
They have no majors and an open curriculum.
Their dorms are houses, most are colonial but they also have the “70’s Houses” and the new houses are very modern and were featured in Architechtual Record.
They have a Feild Work Term which is seven week, off-campus, winter term where students pursue jobs and internships that relate to their studies. In the past students have worked at the Jim Henson Company, the set of Law and Order, and the Stanford Psychology Lab. Carol Channing was discovered during her Bennington Feild Work Term.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins campus is so beautiful, we have friggin’ wild white rabbits living on our lawns and bushes.</p>
<p>Harvard Business school has wild white bunnies as well, their campus is equally as beautiful. :)</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz is the home of the Grateful Dead’s archives and has the banana slug as its mascot. Beat that!</p>
<p>Brandeis has a castle.</p>
<p>one of their presidents was in europe and saw a castle he liked, but the owner wouldn’t sell i to him. So he hired an architect who drew up exact blueprints, and they built it on the campus.</p>
<p>it’s not as aweinspiring as i thought it would be though…</p>
<p>Smith College has the Praxis program where each student, rich or poor, can receive a stipend from the college in order to be able to do an internship that would be otherwise unpaid.</p>
<p>From the Smith Web site:</p>
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<p>Banana slug? How about the Artichokes? Scottsdale (AZ) Community College.</p>
<p>A number of other liberal arts colleges also have internship stipend programs like Smith, including Beloit, Barnard, and Grinnell. </p>
<p>Beloit’s Center for Entrepreneurship funds students who want to start their own business, and provides office space for the start-ups. Some of the businesses funded have included a student record label, a bike rental company, and a student travel magazine. There are probably other schools that offer similar programs, but this is the only one that I am aware of at a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Beloit’s campus is also dotted with native american burial mounds. </p>
<p>St. Olaf’s has a unique “around the world” study abroad program, where students spend time in several countries on different continents during their year abroad.</p>
<p>Reed has the only nuclear reactor completely staffed by undergraduates. Reed also has a comic book library.</p>
<p>Hampshire’s radio station is housed in a yurt, and there is a children’s book museum on campus.</p>
<p>Earlham’s pool is inches shorter than swim meet regulations, as the alumna who donated the money for the pool didn’t believe in sports competition.</p>
<p>The University of Redlands has a labrynth. I believe that Carleton might have one on one of the islands in their aboretum as well. </p>
<p>Linfield College and Goucher College both pay for the travel costs of every student who studies abroad. Goucher is the only college in the U.S. to make studying abroad mandatory for every student.</p>
<p>Emory has Oxford college-two year program in which students spend two years at oxford(GA) and two years and emory.
connecticut college offers music lessons free of charge to its students.</p>