The Lion King
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Columbia defeats Penn
02-11-05 02:20 PM - Post#3901
In response to light blue heavy
In antiquity, that is. According to playboy.com, Columbia is "the fifth oldest college in the nation." I guess that settles the how-old-is-Penn debate once and for all. I mean, if you can't trust playboy.com, who can you trust?
On the other hand, the item goes on to say that the West End is "surrounded by one of the most refined and genteel neighborhoods in the country." If that were true, they wouldn't let me live there. Whoever wrote that obviously hasn't spent much time hanging out in front of Koronet Pizza.
Of course, there are those who will say that Moravian College, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, should also be counted ahead of Columbia (and Princeton for that matter). According to moravian.edu, "Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college, after Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), St. John's in Annapolis (1696), Yale (1701), and the University of Pennsylvania (1740)." (The postseason tournament debate on the Ivy League board seems to be petering out, so I figure we need another dead horse to flog.)
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