<p>actually, i posted a link to the entire thread, not to my individual post, as YOU are wont to do. now, how about you stop repeating “facts” once they’ve been shown to be false (e.g. that princeton’s college system began in 1986, when it began in earnest in 1983, with 1968 antecedents)? and how about you stop repeating characterizations that are clearly false (that princeton’s system is a “marketing ploy,” when undergrads have spent their underclass years in residential colleges for the last 23 years, and the university is currently pumping several hundred million into construction, renovation, and general reorganization). finally, as a i have pointed out before, yale does not have “the only system of such scope and importance.” harvard has virtually the exact same system, and it beat yale to the punch. it just doesn’t thump its chest about its system’s uniqueness like yale, and certain of its partisans like yourself, so often do.</p>