@CALSmom : Most do not feel a need to call themselves any of the silly things you came up with.
Well, if I were an Anteater I wouldn’t reference that, I’d say I went to UC Irvine. But if I run into a fellow Cal grad it’s customary to say ‘Go Bears!’ But it all depends on the conversation and context
I don’t think Stanford grads have a nickname. Their team is the Cardinal (not Cardinals) and the mascot is a tree, neither of which work.
Does it matter? Will we ever have another nominee who isn’t from Yale or Harvard?
Alumni?
Oh wait. I thought this was a trick question.
“I’m a Harvardian.”
Alex, I’ll take “Sentences never uttered by a Harvard graduate ever for $1000.”
Everyone knows that we went to a school “near Boston”.
@skieurope is dead on.
It’s funny. Some schools have nicknames that get used – Yalie and Eli are both used – and some don’t. When I talk about people who went to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, etc., I just say, “They went to [Harvard, Stanford, whatever].” As opposed to saying, “They’re Yalies” or “They’re Wolverines.” Which I might say, but not that often. Quakers, yes; Trojans and Bruins, yes; Cornellians, maybe; Brunonians, Banana Slugs, no way. I sometimes use “Ephs” just to emphasize that it’s the stupidest nickname ever.
I note that the now-suppressed lyrics to “Lord Jeffery Amherst” refers to Harvard students as “Johnnies.” Apparently that once registered, but not during my lifetime.
I think I’ve heard a term once or twice that could be used to describe the spouses and partners (SAPs?) of Harvey Mudd graduates . . .
Obviously the plural of anecdote is not data, but I personally have never heard a Penn alum refer to him/herself as a Quaker. I have, though, occasionally heard current students refer to themselves/their classmates as such.
‘Alex, I’ll take “Sentences never uttered by a Harvard graduate ever for $1000.”’
True, but I have at least heard someone say the term “Harvardian” before, if not by an actual alumnus/a. But I’ve never heard ANYBODY ever utter the word “Dartie” in reference to anything to do with Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is in the same boat as Stanford. In decades gone by they both used to be called the “Indians” but changed that in the 1970s to a color - Big Green, and Cardinal, respectively. But a color is a rather more abstract concept that doesn’t lend itself well to embodiment in the form of a mascot of any sort. Hence, when it comes to a catchy name for referring to them collectively, they got nothin’.
Dartie: no way. Doesn’t exist. And although Dartmouth’s mascot used to be an Indian, alums never referred to themselves that way to my knowledge, any more than people go around calling themselves “Crimsons.”
Princetonian: yes, but none of the Princeton alums I know ever use it.
Quaker: maybe, although again I’ve never heard a Penn grad use it.
Brunonian, Harvardian, Columbian: never heard of any of them, and again not used by any of the alums I know.
There is such a thing as a Smithie, and there used to be Cliffies. But Wellesley grads are Wellesley women. (Like Harvard men and Dartmouth men of yore.)
The trouble with saying you are a Quaker is I’d probably assume you meant the religion as I know a bunch of relgious Quakers. I have probably referred to myself as a Cliffie at some point, but I applied to Radcliffe the last year that was a thing and since I took a gap year, I was mostly with people who had used the joint application. The singing group “The Cliffe Notes” called themselves that because they lived in the Radcliffe dorms, not because they were women.
Swarthmore is also a color (Garnet) hence “Swatties.” Though that term was not used in the 1980s when I went there, now all of we alums are happy to claim it.
@donnaleighg Some elderly friends, a married couple who were both Swarthmore grads, told me that it used to be know as “the Quaker matchbox.” 
If you’re affiliated with the University of Nevada, Reno, you’re part of the Wolf Pack, and you “run with the pack”
The ones I hear out in WA:
UW = Huskies
WSU = Cougs
Pacific Lutheran = Lutes
Gonzaga = Zags (not Bulldogs)
Whitman = Whitties
Other than those, it’s usually “I went to X …”. Sometimes, oddly, it is the name of the law school or B school that almost no one here would recognize (“I went to Goizueta”).
The Quaker Matchbox is still a term heard for Swarthmore; in fact a “Matchbox Couple” from the 80s recently donated money for a brand new fitness center and it is officially named the Matchbox!
A little late, but I’m chuckling about the idea of Dartmouth grads being “Darties” since a “darty/dartie” is what college students call “day party/day drinking.”
Haverford is “Fords” and Bryn Mawr is “Mawrters.” Princeton would be “Tigers.”
I think the interesting question here is: what college communities have recognizable nicknames that are not obviously derived from either their names or their mascots?
Sure, there are Dukies and Reedies and Cornellians. Nothing surprising about that.
So there are Wolverines and Badgers and Bruins and Huskies. But that’s not too surprising either.
It’s less common, but more interesting, when you have nicknames that don’t obviously reflect either the school name or the sports mascot, like Elis, Ephs, Domers, Aggies, Wahoos, and Hoyas.
Maybe some “Aggie” schools historically had the word “Agricultural” in their name. But the UC Davis community is clearly the “Aggies” despite their generic name, and their mascot is a mustang.
re #20: " Most do not feel a need to call themselves any of the silly things you came up with"
I assume that most grads of the various schools that do have well-known “handles” don’t go around routinely describing themselves by those “silly things” either.
For one, after all these years I have never heard an alum of my alma mater described by another alum, in regular conversation, as a “Cornellian”. Though that is indeed a term that exists.