Harvard of the South (HotS); Harvard on the Hocking; Harvard on the Highway...

Mon Mar 5 18:32:42 UTC 2007

At the risk of sounding elitist, here at Stanford we sometimes (jokingly)
refer to Harvard as "Stanford of the East." I wouldn't be surprised if other
schools do something similar.

On 3/4/07, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> From Google. "Harvard" & "Texas."
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> _She'll be  feverish after so much thinking_=20
> (http://after-so-much-thinking.blogspot.com/)      =20
> Texas has become the first state to enact  legislation requiring girls age
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> 2=20
> & up be ... Athens, Ohio  (home of Ohio University, "Harvard on the
> Hocking"=
> )=20
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> _World War  II Story - Post War Chicago - Chapter 30 - Gallagher_=20
> (http://www.gallagher.com/ww2/chapter30.html)      Ed was accepted as an
> Air=
> Cadet, but=20
> when he got  down to a Texas Air Base, ... at Navy Pier near
> downtown  Chica=
> go,=20
> labeled Harvard on the Lake (Michigan).  ...
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> _UIAA at Chicago: 'From Pier to Here'_=20
> (http://www.uiaa.org/chicago/highlights/40th_memory.html)      ... 'Navy
> Pie=
> r' or 'the Pier,' but we  soon began=20
> calling it 'Harvard on the Rocks. ... That win  advanced the Flames to the
> N=
> CAA=20
> tournament in Texas against  ...
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> ...
> _The Shorthorn Online | Opinion | From Ash to Cash_=20
> (
> http://www.theshorthorn.com/archive/2005/summer/05-aug-02/o080205-02.html)=20=
>      When my grandfather=20
> laughingly referred to UTA  as =E2=80=9CHarvard on the Highway,=E2=80=9D
> ...=
> It didn=E2=80=99t have the=20
> rah-rah  and school spirit of UT-Austin, Texas A&M or even  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Angel of the apocalypse - smh.com.au_=20
> (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826531870.html)      Baylor
> i=
> s the Harvard of the Baptists,  and=20
> favoured to be the site of the G.W. Bush Presidential Library. The  city
> has=
> one=20
> other landmark, the Texas Rangers  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Moving mountains (Scott)_ (
> http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3804.htm)=
> =20
>     =E2=80=9CWhen I graduated from Harvard on the  Neches (Lamar) in 1975,
> I=
> was=20
> putting my accounting degree to good use  writing payroll checks out of
> our=20=
> pickup=20
> truck  ...
> ...
> ...
> _20-20: Building Access, Engaged Learning and Excellence ::
> Campus  ..._=20
> (
> http://www.compact.org/20th/read/building_access_engaged_learning_and_excel=
> lence)=20
>      UTEP's community is El Paso, Texas; and  the University, with an=20
> enrollment ... "Harvard on the  Border," woke up to the reality of its
> surro=
> undings=20
> and began  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Nicholls State University - Wikipedia, the free  encyclopedia_=20
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholls_State_University)      The school
> is=20=
> sometimes=20
> referred to as  "Harvard on the Bayou;" the university bookstore even
> sells=20=
> shirts =20
> sporting this light-hearted nickname.  ...
> ...
> ...
> _The IvyGate Index: Hollywood - IvyGate_=20
> (
> http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2006/11/the_ivygate_index_hollywood_1.html)=
>       I thought Duke was the Harvard=20
> of the  South. Which would make Rice the Harvard of Texas. Which is
> kind've=20=
> =20
> like saying that you're the only one on the short  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Aggie Librarian: What I am, and what I am not_=20
> (
> http://aggielibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-i-am-and-what-i-am-not.html=
> )      =20
> For those of you not from Texas, an "Aggie" is a  current student or
> former=20
> ... graduate studies at Rice University,  a.k.a. our "Harvard of the=20
> Southwest". ...
> ...
> ...
> _The  Wacky Post-Modernism of David Bagsby - interview_=20
> (http://tulsatvmemories.com/murgbag.html)      ... composition at The
> Univer=
> sity  of Tulsa ("The=20
> Harvard of the Southwest"), ... is also  an extraordinary musician who
> has=20
> worked with The Texas  Playboys, ...
> ...
> ...
> _JSTOR: The Short History of Race-Based Affirmative Action at  Rice
> ..._=20
> (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=3D1077-3711(199623)13<36:TSHORA>2.0.CO
> ;2-#=
> )     =20
> Often called the "Harvard of the  Southwest," 10.0% 10 The Surge in 9 ...
> th=
> e=20
> Hopwood case that  the University of Texas Law School could no longer use
> ra=
> ce =20
> ...
> ...
> ...
> _Rice  University_ (http://wikimapia.org/4759/)      Rice is also part of
> th=
> e=20
> Texas  Medical Center, the largest medical center in ... yep... they  call
> i=
> t=20
> "the Harvard of the South." (but that's only because  ...
>
> ...
> ...
> _Syndicated College News_=20
> (
> http://www.brookhavencourier.com/channel/section/uglobal_section_id/885de8b=
> e-9d29-405f-9cf1-a15a527b43d6/zip/75244/)      In=20
> recent years, some have begun calling SMU  "the Harvard of the South. ...
> Da=
> ily=20
> News from Texas  A&M's student newspaper, The Battalion.  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Southern Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_=20
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ivy_League)      Of those eleven
> stat=
> es, only Alabama does not =20
> claim to have a single HotS ['Harvard of the South']."  Usually
> universities=
> do=20
> not accord themselves that  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Nickname -  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_=20
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickname)      =20
> ... Begins," Cowtown, Funkytown, FW (pronounced  "EFF-dub") - Fort
> Worth,=20
> Texas ... "Harvard on the  Hill" derogatory term used for local
> community=20
> colleges  ...
>
> ...
> ...
> _Hey there...miss me? [Archive] - Civilization Gaming Network  Forums_=20
> (http://www.civgaming.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-4930.html)      In
> Texa=
> s, we=20
> don't even know what New  England winters are. We also have Harvard on the
> H=
> ill=20
> (aka  Tarrant County College). That's a joke, because most people  ...
> ...
> ...
> _North Texas Balls: The Eagle Dilemma_=20
> (http://ntballs.blogspot.com/2007/03/eagle-dilemma.html)      Your North
> Tex=
> as Source for Biased and  Unprofessional=20
> Sports Opinion ... versus U. of Arkansas - Little  Rock (Harvard of the=20
> Ozarks) and Arkansas State.  ...
> ...
> ...
> _TWSCO -  Officer Profiles_ (http://www.twsco.com/Executive%20Team.htm
> )    =20=
> =20
> Scott has been with TWSCO since 1987. Education:  BBA Management =E2=80=93
> T=
> exas Tech=20
> University, Lubbock, TX (The Harvard  of the Panhandle). Prior to
> Joining=20
> TWSCO:  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Flagship Knoxville History_=20
> (http://www.crsmithmuseum.org/AAhistory/origin.htm)      =20
> Meanwhile, a Texas bus operator, Temple Bowen  organized Texas Air
> Transport=
> =20
> in late 1927 ... Embry-Riddle  has been described as the "Harvard of
> the=20
> skies.  ...
> ...
> ...
> _symo [Archive] - PowWeb Community Forums_ (http://forum.powweb.com/
> archive/index.php/t-57296.html)=20
>     =20
> As you may, or may not know, Tom is a  Texas Tech grad (certainly can't
> tell=
> =20
> by ... All I  know is that at the "Harvard of the Plains" (Nebraska) we at
> =20
> least ...
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> ...
> _The Collegian :: Archives of Op-Ed Articles_=20
> (http://www.bethelks.edu/collegian/archives/index.php?section=3Dop-ed)
> =20=
> ... an April morning after he  had=20
> crossed the Rio Grande near Harlingen, Texas.  ... Being in college,=20
> especially here at the =E2=80=9CLittle  Harvard on the
> Plains,=E2=80=9D  ...
> (Bethel College)
> ...
> ...
> _Dallas Sports Guide_=20
> (http://www.dallassportsguide.com/featured_dynamic.asp?FeatureID=3D39)=20
>     =20
> Joe Kerbel: This football coaching legend  never found it difficult to=20
> recruit players to remote West  Texas State, the Harvard of the High
> Plains,=
>   ...
> ...
> ...
> _Jeffrey St. Clair: Flirtations with  Disaster_=20
> (http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair09152005.html)=20
>     Sacrificial Murder by  Texas: Frances Newton Died for Bush's Sins  ...
> n=
> o=20
> trace evidence that he won any academic  laurels at this Harvard of the=20
> Heartland.  ...
> (Central State College, OK)
> ...
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> _The People's Republic of Seabrook: Next up:  Little Sisters of the
> Poor_=20
> (http://intellectualize.org/archives/007912.html)      ... competition
> that=20=
> =20
> wouldn=E2=80=99t make a good Texas high school team break  a sweat. ...
> Yep,=
> Macalester isn
> =E2=80=99t called =E2=80=9CThe  Harvard of the Midwest=E2=80=9D because of
> o=
> ur  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Cloudcroft Online Newsletter #179 - September  12, 2003_=20
> (http://cloudcroft.com/news/news179.htm)      ... New Mexico  University
> in=20=
> Silver=20
> City...otherwise known as the  Harvard of the Gila. ... In Texas,  we say
> th=
> at Cloudcroft is=20
> Texas' secret retreat.  ...
> ...
> ...
>
> _Grad Schools, Universities, Colleges and Graduate  Resources ..._=20
> (http://www.gradsource.com/article.cfm?ArtId=3D2756)      ...
> Saskatchewan,=20=
> South =20
> Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah  ... in Washington D.C.
> (also=
> =20
> affectionately called the  Harvard of the Deaf World.  ...=20
> ...
> ...
> _Luke Ford_ (http://www.lukeford.net/archives/updates/020311.htm
> )      ...=20
> emphases on journalism  and film) at the University of Arizona, "the
> Harvard=
>   of=20
> the Southwest." ... With nothing else to do,  she follows him to
> Texas.  ...
>
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> ...
> _Barcode spoofer caught stealing iPod shuffle -  Engadget_=20
> (
> http://wireless.engadget.com/2005/12/05/barcode-spoofer-caught-stealing-ipo=
> d-shuffle/)     =20
> Guns can be used in Texas to  protect property over a certain amount (I
> thin=
> k ...=20
> They  don't call us the Harvard of the rockies for nothing, but  maybe the
> .=
> ..
> (Colorado  College)
>
> ...
> ...
> _Baylor  Information Network - Top Ten_=20
> (http://bin.baylor.edu/top_ten/index.php?id=3D84)      Harvard on the
> Brazos=
> (McLennan Community  College) ...=20
> Trademark/DMCA information. Terms of Service. Baylor  University Waco,
> Texas=
> 76798 =20
> 1-800-BAYLOR-U.
> ...
> ...
> _UNM Men's Basketball: Minus Giddens, Lobos Triumph over TCU
> 74-58  ..._=20
> (
> http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/feb/17/unm-mens-basketball-lobos-triumph-o=
> ver-tcu
> -74-58/?lobozone-story-detail=3D1/)      But what else should be expected
> fr=
> om =20
> "Harvard on the Rio Grande". ... But the worst set of fans  are not the=20
> Aggies, but TEXAS TECH!  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Belle Of The Brawl_=20
> (
> http://belleofthebrawl.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_belleofthebrawl_archive.html=
> )      ... up) and Hugo (rhymes with Yugo)  Chavez sure=20
> wouldn't flush here in Texas. ... I was working  on my classical education
> a=
> t=20
> Harvard on the Hudson (aka West  Point...
> ...
> ...
> _Chancellor's prepared remarks for All-University Supper_=20
> (http://www.news.ku.edu/2004/04N/MayNews/May21/supper.html)       It is
> not=20=
> that Kansans do not=20
> want to be known  for something, or for KU to be thought of as the
> 'Harvard=20=
> on=20
> the  Kaw.' In fact, as a long-time faculty member  ...
> ...
> ...
> _California University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free  ..._
> (http://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_University_of_Pennsylvania
> )      Students=20
> lovingly refer to California University  as "Harvard on the Mon,"
> referring=20=
> to the=20
> location of the main  campus on the banks of the Monongahela River  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Jason's OSU Beavers Blog: August 2006_=20
> (http://jasonprotheroblog.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html)      ...
> Eas=
> tern Washington University, or as  Herd=20
> likes to call it, the "Harvard on the Palouse".  ... A - Ohio State,
> Notre=20
> Dame, Texas, Auburn, West Virginia  ...
> ...
> ...
> _globeandmail.com: History in the making_=20
> (
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061030.URCMcGillpg18/B=
> NStory/)      =20
> Yet how McGill keeps its Harvard-on-the-  St.-Lawrence stature is no
> minor=20
> feat. As a public university, ...  WSJ.com: Texas Pacific, KKR Prepare TXU
> B=
> id=20
> Lock  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Ducati Monster Board - Alma Maters..._=20
> (http://www.ducatimonster.org/smf/index.php?topic=3D31997.msg356328)=20
>     aka Harvard on the Pike aka Monkey  College aka some others I can't
> seem=
> =20
> to recall... I'ma prof at UMd.  Montgomery College transfers are some of
> the=
> =20
> best  ...
> ...
> ...
> _Montgomery Village singles - Montgomery Village dating  ..._=20
> (http://uk.match.com/localsingles/maryland/montgomery-village/men.html
> )    =20=
> I am a graduate=20
> of Harvard on the  Pike (Montgomery College). As for work I'm Calvin=20
> Klein/FONT  underwear model oh wait just kidding but it sounded good  ...
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