U.S. Schools Flashcards
Public land-grant university in same-named city, AB
Alabama’s 2nd largest school, to its rival U. of Alabama
Named for Oliver Goldsmith’s poem “The Deserted Village” (1770) - “Sweet ____! Loveliest village of the plain…”
SEC West - the Tigers
Alumni: Cam Newton, Bo Jackson
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
Public land-grant school in same-named city, S.C.
South Carolina’s 2nd largest school
Named for Thomas Green, who donated land from his father-in-law (John C. Calhoun)’s plantation
The Tigers - fight song: “Tiger Rag”
Stadium, like LSU’s, is nicknamed “Death Valley”
The 2017 NCAA Football champions (defeated Alabama Tide)
Alumni include Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence (2018-20)
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Public land-grant school in West Lafayette, IN
Named for early financial supporter
Big Ten West
The Boilermakers - home of the Big Bass Drum
Alumni include Chargers/Saints QB Drew Brees (1997-2000), astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Orville Redenbacher
Past staff include Amelia Earhart
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Public land-grant school in New Brunswick, New Jersey (& Camden & Newark)
Rival of fellow NJ school Princeton
In 1825, changed name from “Queen’s College”
Big Ten East
Scarlet Knights - fight song “The Bells Must Ring”
Alumni include poet Joyce Kilmer & actor James Gandolfini
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Private college in Brunswick, ME
Alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Private college in Waterville, ME
COLBY COLLEGE
School in Winston-Salem, NC
ACC
The “Demon Deacons”
Alumni include Arnold Palmer
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
College in South Hadley, MA
Oldest of the “Seven Sisters”
Attended by Emily Dickinson
MOUNT HOLYOKE
Historically black university in Louisiana
Site of Eddie Robinson Stadium, named for a coach
Home of the Tiger Marching Band, which played the first Superbowl half-time show
GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY
Historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia
Atended by MLK Jr. & Herman Cain
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Deaf university in Washington, D.C.
Founded in 1864 and named for founder Thomas Hopkins
Home of the Bison
Supposedly invented the football huddle to hide their hand signals
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
College of Columbia U. (NYC)
Named for Columbia president Frederick
Private women’s college since 1889
One of the 7 Sisters
BARNARD COLLEGE
Massachusetts college
Alums include H. Clinton & M. Albright
One of the 7 Sisters
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
Jesuit school
Main campus in Bronx
Also campuses in Lincoln Center (Manhattan) & Westchester
Alums include Frankie Frisch, a baseball player
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Beloit College is located in Beloit in this state
WISCONSIN
Cleveland, Ohio school
Home of the Spartans
Formed in a 1967 merger
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Ohio school in same-named city
Site of 1970 “massacre” when 4 students were shot by National Guard at an anti-Vietnam War protest
Subject of John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning photo & of Neil Young’s song “Ohio”
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Ohio college in same-named city
Home of the Yeomen
Oldest coed college in U.S. (since 1841)
OBERLIN COLLEGE
Pennsylvania school in same-named city in the Main Line
Catholic
Home of the Wildcats
Division I - Big East
2016 NCAA men’s basketbal champs
“New town”
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founded by Baptists
Home of the Owls
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
School in Nashville, Tennessee
Home of the Commodores
Built in 1873 & named for rail magnate Cornelius, one of America’s richest men
Attended by Al Gore
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
School in Houston, Texas
Home of the Owls
Est. 1912
Big in nanotechnology
Named for founder William Marsh, killed by his valet with chloroform in a forged will plot
RICE UNIVERSITY
Pasadena school est. 1891
Rival of MIT
Manages JPL for NASA
Employed Feynman, Richter, & Pauling at different times
Setting of “The Big Bang Theory”
CALTECH
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
University
Est. 1780 in Lexington, Kentucky
Name means “beyond the woods”
TRANSYLVANIA U.
University
Est. 1873 in Fort Worth, Texas
Home of the Horned Frogs
TEXAS CHRISTIAN U.
TCU
Est. 1839 in Lexington, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley
Home of the Keydets
First admitted women 1997
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VMI
Est. 1749 in Lexington, VA
Named for George
Name later added school president, Robert
WASHINGTON & LEE U.
USA’s oldest academic honor society
Formed 1776 at William & Mary
Symbol is a golden key
“Love of learning is the guide of life.”
Emerson’s “American Scholar” was given as a speech to Harvard chapter
PHI BETA KAPPA
Yale secret society since 1832
Meet in “the Tomb”
Accused of stealing Geronimo’s remains
Bushes were members
SKULL & BONES
