Our College Tour Experience and personal opinions

http://knollingmylife.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-elite-colleges-of-east-coast.html

Very enjoyable, with fine photography, and some provocative text; thank you! However, the twice mentioned (one in the Duke section and once in Princeton’s) myth regarding a Duke - Princeton connection has been thoroughly debunked many years ago. Here’s a summary: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/uarchives/history/articles/princeton.

It made me realize EVERY IVY has some form of Gothic architecture or another.

All joking aside, great blog post. It was very informative and I enjoyed the pictures.

Thanks for a great post

"the twice mentioned (one in the Duke section and once in Princeton’s) myth regarding a Duke - Princeton connection has been thoroughly debunked many years ago. Here’s a summary: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/uarchives/history/articles/princeton. "

  • thank you for clarifying this. What we heard during the Princeton tour is that the Duke's Gothic campus is in fact modeled generally around the look of Princeton's - influenced by the Duke's opinion to render Duke's campus Gothic in style. They did say that it was probably untrue that the idea that Duke offered money to Princeton to change it's name is probably not true; but that there was no proof for or against this story.

@RFLPer‌: You are most welcome. Again, I greatly enjoyed the report and the imagery.

I enjoyed reading this.

Yale is one of my favorite campuses. The funny thing is if you look at the cornerstones of many of the old Gothic buildings, they say 1975, 1979, 1980…