Colleges with best/worst names

<p>Agree with flopsy about American. BTW, flopsy you should be a moderator!</p>

<p>I just heard a radio discussion recently that Harvard, Yale and Brown got their names because some benefactor donated a couple of thousand dollars or some books to them in the early days of the colleges when they were in financial distress.</p>

<p>Yale was originally the The Collegiate School, but is now named after Elihu Yale because he donated a couple hundred books to the school.</p>

<p>Harvard started out as the New College until John Harvard donated some books and a small sum of money.</p>

<p>Brown used to be the Rhode Island College, but offered to change its name if anyone could donate $6000 to keep the school going. Nobody offered $6000, but John Brown contributed $5000 and so the school is named after him.</p>

<p>Interesting...I think their donations would be worth about $50K today, so I wonder if $50K would buy a college name today?! Or maybe a park bench?!</p>

<p>Wow, i started this thread a long time ago, i thought it was dead.</p>

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<p>Psh, not before me. ;)</p>

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I'm already an unofficial "moderator" for the UCLA forum, so there's no need to bestow any formalities upon me... :rolleyes:</p>

<p><--- usurper of unofficial moderator. :)</p>

<p>Carnegie melon is the worst name. You think of steel magnate entrepreneur and also Carnegie Hall where so many wonderful concerts have been held. And then you combine it with melons. Melons. Melons. It is deceiving because you link melon with fruit/vegetables and thus good nutrition. But Cmellon students tend to study way too much and not shower or at least the stereotype says. Thus, nutrition or melon law #1 is broken. Melon law #2, well, you think melons in the perverted sense, and well I assume based on my visit, I don't think I have seen them mellons too often when I spent the night there.</p>

<p>How do you become a moderater anyways?</p>

<p>Bob Jones university is the worst hands down... I think Amherst is the best name.. i just like the way it sounds</p>

<p>'Berkeley' sounds nice.</p>

<p>I like Dartmouth, Princeton (though it does sound pretentious), and Villanova</p>

<p>The worst name is Bob Jones University. Hands down.</p>

<p>If Bob Jones has the worst name then it fits the school rather nicely.</p>

<p>Okay so it is a technical college, and the name is descriptive, but the winner may be the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. But more seriously, I've never really liked "Swarthmore" much, Ursinius is terrible, Liberty University (because the name is so hypocritial, the school gives demerits for "music code" violations, attending dances and "witchcraft" seriously though, one doesn't have much liberty there).</p>

<p>Worst: College of Wooster, Skidmore</p>

<p>Dartmouth has to have the best name.</p>

<p>Dark, mysterious, strong, and unique.</p>

<p>Best: University of Notre Dame. I mean, come on the name just sounds so, i dont know what. It means "Our Mother" in French, and for those of us who are Catholic, it holds a very dear significance. </p>

<p>Worse has to be University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, although im a bit partial. The guy who spoke to me at a college fair had especially bad breath. I mean, i want to know what he ate, so that i never eat it.</p>

<p>Nah, Oral Roberts University wins worst. Hands down.</p>

<p>And I like Oxford, or is this restricted to U.S. universities?</p>

<p>I think Potsdam is the best because backwards it's Madstop ;)</p>

<p>hermione
I like that one! :)</p>

<p>Madonna
St. Leo
Mt. Nazarene
Biola
Kalamazoo (my daughter's choice)</p>