Wesleyan v Oberlin v Brandeis

circuitrider
Fri, 15 May 2015 14:29:45 +0000

That’s a good point, @soze. As illustrated by this n-Gram:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Oberlin+College%2Cthe+Haverford+College%2Cthe+Davidson+College%2Cthe+Wesleyan+University%2Cthe+Amherst+College%2Cthe+Williams+College%2Cthe+Pomona+College%2Cthe+Bowdoin+College%2Cthe+Carleton+College&year_start=1945&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20Oberlin%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Haverford%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Davidson%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Wesleyan%20University%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Amherst%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Williams%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Pomona%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Bowdoin%20College%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthe%20Carleton%20College%3B%2Cc0

N-grams measure the frequency with which words and phrases appear in print over time, as recorded by Google. From this one it’s pretty easy to see which LAC has “fallen” the furthest since its peak in the mid-1960s - it’s AMHERST.