<p>What does this phrase mean? Does it refer to Duke? Vanderbilt? A different university? Does this have an overall positive connotation? Does it suggest anything about arrogance?</p>
<p>It refers to Duke, and I might add nobody except Dukies use that term, hehehe</p>
<p>Way back in the day, Vanderbilt was self-billing on this. Nothing wrong with promoting your program. </p>
<p>Nowadays so many schools have t-shirts saying something like ‘Harvard, the Georgia Tech of the North’ … just in fun, nothing to over-analyze.</p>
<p>“Harvard of the South” sounds needy and embarassing, especially since (according to the NY Times) Harvard wins 95% of cross-admit battles with Duke. How about “Harvard of Durham, NC”?</p>
<p>I stand corrected. That term does most often refer to Duke, but occassionally refers to Vanderbuilt, then UVA. I suppose W&M can use if if they want because of the age of W&M.</p>
<p>My problem with using the term to refer to Vanderbilt is the ‘South’ part of the term. While technically Tennessee is in the “South”, I think of it as a transition state, where influences are both northern and southern. When I hear “south”, I first think of “Plantation South”.</p>
<p>All just semantics.</p>
<p>The City University of New York at City College: “The Poor Man’s Harvard”</p>
<p>***No Rice?</p>
<p>Where is the cross admit info? Someone posted it but I couldn’t find it. I would love to get a most recent % Thanks!</p>
<p>I’ve heard Stanford called the Harvard of the West and U. of Chicago the Harvard of the Midwest . . . I believe Harvard is the Harvard of the East. :)</p>
<p>Tennessee is most definitely not a transition state. It has always been considered true South. Plenty of Civil War battles were fought here. Kentucky is more of a transitional Southern state, which is due north of us.
Even I as a native Californian who has transplanted here can attest to this!
Vanderbilt has a long history of being called Harvard of the South as well.</p>
<p>Rice has been referred to as the “Harvard of the Southwest”.</p>
<p>Stanford is actually founded in around 1885 (opened doors in 1891) as the “Cornell of the west” (7/15 of the original faculty were Cornell), and Berkeley originally modeled after Yale (thus the blue as the predominant school color). No school in California was ever modelled after Harvard… perhaps it was considered an unobtainable objective :).</p>
<p>Stanford was originally free of charge :)</p>
<p>vociferous – the cross admit data:</p>
<p>[SSRN-A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, Andrew Metrick](<a href=“http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload]SSRN-A”>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105#PaperDownload)</p>
<p>All research universities that offer undergraduate majors and teach through seminars are modeled after Johns Hopkins… especially the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>in Texas, we refer to Rice as the ‘Harvard of the South’.</p>
<p>What are you people talking about? When people say “Harvard of the South,” it automatically means “Rice University.” Duke is, from what I heard, “Ivy of the South.” But I do admit Duke is a better school and deserves to be called “Harvard of the South.” It’s just that I knew Rice was often referred to as “H.O.S.” Never thought people would question that.</p>
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<p>I have heard that expression used at Sewanee!</p>
<p>Agree with hope4freeride- Tennessee is south. Tour the battlefields…eat the food…experience the culture. (I say this in an entirely positive way)</p>
<p>My dh has always said that his school, Millsaps College, was known as the “Harvard of the South”…It’s funny, when I saw this headline I thought I would actually read about Millsaps, a small LAC in Jackson, Mississippi!</p>
<p>I’ve Emory referred to multiple times at the Harvard of the South. Same for Rice, occasionally Vanderbilt, and those who are terribly mistaken and think Duke is actually in the South :p</p>
<p>laxboy, monhylyum… since when is TEXAS in the SOUTH?? How can a school not in the south… be an “H of the south”?</p>