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[Beverly Flanigan]

Recently OU bigwigs have taken to saying THE Ohio University too (meaning
us in Athens).  The turf war goes on.

At 12:24 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>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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