What Is Each Ivy League U Known For?

Hanna
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:43:00 +0000

The Houses/Colleges are a very big deal and important distinction of Harvard and Yale.

Case in point: I just returned from a cocktail event at the university where I work, which is neither Harvard nor Yale. I was chatting with the most famous member of the faculty, who is 25 years my senior and easily 1000 times more important than I am (that might be an understatement). When the topic of college came up, he immediately wanted to know my House and told me his. It’s such a leveler – at that point it didn’t matter that he’s a big shot and I’m not, he was just a Quincy grad and I was a Leverite and we could kid around.