America’s ten “most beautiful” college campuses

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<p>In no particular order:</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Rice
Pomona
Harvard
Occidental
Swarthmore
Amherst
Cornell
Brown</p>

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I’m always bemused by how closely these “most beautiful” lists resemble the USNWR top 25.</p>

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<p>Exactly. Hanover is the same way.</p>

<p><a href=“http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles23017.jpg[/url]”>http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles23017.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://rivers.hanover.edu/images/site/ri_home1.jpg[/url]”>http://rivers.hanover.edu/images/site/ri_home1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Maybe so. I’d have to agree that Yale’s Gothic, building for building, is more beautiful than Chicago’s Gothic. Chicago’s beauty comes in large measure from the integration of the buildings with each other (as a metaphor for the interconnections among academic disciplines); from visual allusions to European models (Oxford and Cambridge); and from the connection of the built environment to the Midway green space, running down to Lake Michigan. The effect is very purposeful.</p>

<p>UVa is another beautiful campus where the original design reflects the founder’s intentions and educational mission. And Middlebury has done a beautiful job of integrating old and new (for instance in the long sight-line between the old chapel doors and the fabulous new library.)</p>

<p>IB is right, many relatively obscure colleges all over America are gorgeous. Little Mount St. Mary’s Seminary (Emmitsburg, Md) is one. St. Mary’s College of Maryland (slightly better known) is a nicely built campus in a beautiful waterfront setting.</p>