<p>^You might find this 1910 volume of interest:
Slosson, “Great American Universities”
[Great</a> American universities. . - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library](<a href=“http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b58878;q1=great%20american%20universities;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=1;orient=0]Great”>http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b58878;q1=great%20american%20universities;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=1;orient=0)
It covers the following schools:
Harvard, Yale University, Princeton, Stanford, California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Cornell, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Columbia</p>