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<p>I’d say that’s pretty accurate in terms of which universities are perceived to be the best in the humanities: Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, etc.</p>
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<p>Having a gigantic core doesn’t make them better at humanities. 
By objective measures, there are universities that outperform them in the humanities.</p>