<p>“a reputation for seriously anti-social students (and not in the cute t-shirt slogan sense) for much of that time.”</p>
<p>No, they didn’t, because the term meant nothing for much of that time. The earliest Chicago could have gotten the “antisocial” stereotype would probably have been the 70s/80s. But the idea that people considered certain undergrad schools to be “antisocial” in the 30s or 40s is absurd. Chicago was a research powerhouse, and it had an undergrad school that wealthy Chicago kids attended. The idea that college applicants should choose the “best fit” school from among a national pool is like 15 years old, and even now applies mostly to a specific class. The majority of American kids go to public colleges, even today. Back when Chicago was founded (and for the next 70 years), only the children of elites even went to college!</p>