<p>I get amused at the LACs or their alumni that so fiercely try to defend the definition of LAC against any encroachment from universities lest their students be tainted with the stain of preparing for actual work and careers instead of spending four years solely thinking Big Thoughts.</p>
<p>And I get equally amused at universities that do the opposite. My own daughter’s school, Dartmouth College, denies it’s a university and fervently rejects putting university in its name. Yet it has one of the oldest medical schools in the US. It also has a graduate business school, an engineering school, and a graduate school that awards PhD degrees. Sure, it’s kinda small for a university, but c’mon, that’s a university if ever I saw one.</p>