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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Is this why OSU refers to itself as "THE Ohio State University"?


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> Perhaps this is the time to remember the OHIO war ... in
> which Ohio Univ (Athens, 1804) wrestled the use of the name
> "Ohio" in publicity from that new land-grant university in
> Columbus (1858?)  Previously Ohio State had used the word
> "Ohio" alone w/o State in their self-reference.
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