<p>re-posted:</p>
<p>it is not “yale’s system.” the system originated at oxbridge, centuries earlier, and was advocated for adoption at harvard, princeton, and chicago as early as the 1890s (see alex duke, “importing oxbridge”). yale, despite having little to say on the matter until the 1920s, implemented the system only after having its hand forced when the aforementioned harkness took his money to harvard. as for princeton, it created its first college not in 1986, but in 1968 (woodrow wilson lodge, now wilson college). it created four others in 1983. after the completion of $110-million whitman college next fall, princeton will have three “true” four-year colleges, to yale’s none.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=225480&page=2[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=225480&page=2</a></p>