<p>posterx, do you work for the Chamber of Commerce? I’m fond of New Haven, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Ann Arbor and to list New Haven in a sentence with Cambridge and Boston is inviting deserved ridicule. As much as I love Mamoun’s …</p>
<p>BTW, the old story of Old Campus is that it was intentionally built to look like a fortress because of town / gown friction. Something to do with an old fable about the locals pointing cannon at the school. This story is false. Look at the history of the actual buildings and note that, as two examples, that Phelps was built later and so needed to fit in and that Bingham replaced the lovely Osborne Hall which had its main entrance as a wide, curved series of steps facing the corner of College and Chapel.</p>