Wesleyan: An Old Ivy?

<p><a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/popup/landmarks/2.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/popup/landmarks/2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Interestingly enough, Middlebury's Old Stone Row also is based on Yale's Old Brick Row.</p>

<p>"[Middlebury's] Old Stone Row was built over the early decades of the College's history based on Yale's Old Brick Row prototype. The Yale grouping also served as inspiration for similar building complexes on many other liberal arts college campuses. It is believed that these three buildings on the Middlebury campus offer the purest form of expression of the Yale prototype that exists today."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/news_1997/oldrow.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/news_1997/oldrow.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://maozi.middlebury.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmiddlebury_history&CISOPTR=68&DMSCALE=13.14060&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=4.38020&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&REC=3&DMROTATE=0&x=17&y=89%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://maozi.middlebury.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmiddlebury_history&CISOPTR=68&DMSCALE=13.14060&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=4.38020&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&REC=3&DMROTATE=0&x=17&y=89&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Of course it is based on Yale. Yale alumni founded and/or were the first Presidents of virtually all of America's great colleges, including Princeton, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Columbia, Syracuse, WUSTL, and the University of California (plus many other state schools), and, of course, the Kyushu Institute of Technology!</p>

<p>Small wonder, I suppose, that 4 of the past 6 U.S. Presidents were Yalies as well.</p>

<p>It's interesting to note that of the eight signatories to the Ivy Group Agreement in 1945, only five have a single building that predates the Civil War. By comparison, of the twelve NESCAC colleges, there are only two that do not. I think the lesson to be drawn here is that, if nothing else, smaller endowments force colleges to be better conservators of their past.</p>

<p>Yes, a wise lesson indeed. Now, which Ivies have buildings that predate the Civil War? Probably not Cornell considering that it was founded after the Civil War, or Columbia considering it moved to its current site after it. That leaves only one that was a bad conservator, right?</p>

<p>Why exempt Columbia? I rather like their present location. But, it is an acquired taste. And they had two shots at retaining rare pre-Civil War collegiate architecture and blew them both. The other is Penn, of course; founded by Ben Franklin who never set foot on the campus.;)</p>

<p>True, Columbia should not be exempted. Was the other UPenn?</p>

<p>Yes, the other was Penn; sorry for the double post. This thread is obviously generating heavy traffic. :p</p>

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It's interesting to note that of the eight signatories to the Ivy Group Agreement in 1945, only five have a single building that predates the Civil War. By comparison, of the twelve NESCAC colleges, there are only two that do not. I think the lesson to be drawn here is that, if nothing else, smaller endowments force colleges to be better conservators of their past.

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Same pattern with football fields. NESCAC schools claim 7 of the 12 oldest, including the top three slots. Ivies have one. Data from [url=<a href="http://www.nescac.com/Records/fbrecordbook.htm%5DNESCAC%5B/url"&gt;http://www.nescac.com/Records/fbrecordbook.htm]NESCAC[/url&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p>

<ol>
<li>Wesleyan (Conn.) - Andrus Field (Oct. 31, 1881)</li>
<li>Williams - Weston Field (Nov. 1883)</li>
<li>Amherst - Pratt Field (Fall 1891)</li>
<li>U. of the South - McGee Field (Nov 7, 1891)</li>
<li>Ill. Wesleyan - Illinois Wesleyan Field (Fall 1893)</li>
<li>U. of Pennsylvania - Franklin Field (Oct. 1, 1895)</li>
<li>Bowdoin - Whittier Field (Fall 1896)</li>
<li>Colorado College - Washburn Field (Oct. 1, 1898)
Hamilton - Steuben Field (1898)</li>
<li>Bates - Garcelon Field (Sept. 30, 1899)</li>
<li>Occidental - Patterson Field (1900)
Trinity (Conn.) - Jessee Field (1900)</li>
</ol>

<p>Smartalec,
Surprise, surprise. You will see that the author graduated from Wes. That is funny, to be so blatant about plugging one's school. </p>

<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126681%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126681&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>For a complete list of the Wesleyan media mafia go to:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_University_people#News%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_University_people#News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>