<p>"The task now is to find a new rival, one much more like our fine school (meaning a private school), a school that we can fairly compete against, and beat on occasion, and sometimes badly. [...] Both Duke and Northwestern are academically rigorous and have high standards for their athletes, meaning that we would be competing on even ground. But neither is quite in the academic stratosphere that Stanford is in. MIT is also an option, lacking a clear rival; but well let them wage a war of nerdiness with Caltech and exchange clever pranks (Caltech student posing as MIT tour guides, for example). No, only one school would suit Stanford as its new rival: Princeton."</p>
<p>A rather entertaining article.</p>