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[sagehen]

>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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Then there's Miami University, another source of confusion among Ohio schools.
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