<p>“When we toured Princeton the tour guide proudly told how Princeton had been the only Ivy school that didn’t kick out its students from the Confederate states at the outbreak of the Civil War.”</p>
<p>I don’t know where that student got that info. It is true that Princeton has long attracted Southerners, including slaveowners: <a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/slavery.shtml[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/slavery.shtml</a></p>
<p>However, Yale, whose Calhoun College is named for a now-notorious politician and preeminent national advocate of states’ rights and slavery, had many ties to the Confederacy.<br>
<a href=“http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/elms/19th.htm[/url]”>http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/elms/19th.htm</a></p>
<p>As did Harvard: <a href=“http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/elms/article.htm[/url]”>http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/elms/article.htm</a> “In 1850, 72 southerners were enrolled at Yale, 65 at Harvard, and 115 at Princeton. By 1860, only 33 remained at Yale while Harvard and Princeton remained stable with 63 and 113 respectively. The dramatic increases in southerners at Harvard and Princeton can be attributed, in part, to those universities’ shifts away from a local perspective to a national one by mid-century. For the southern students who remained, the sectional instability only increased.”</p>
<p>Harvard students served in both the Union and Confederate armies: <a href=“http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/civil_war.shtml[/url]”>http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/civil_war.shtml</a></p>
<p>The Ivies in general have a pretty shoddy record in this department. Brown, my alma mater, was founded by a slave trader.</p>