2005-06 Schedule

[CU at Stanford]

I think most of us don't know that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is now a private university, but it was established, like Cornell, under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862.  So MIT was initially public, but then became private.

[Trotsky]

[Q]CU at Stanford Wrote:
Kent...formerly, Kent State (which does not conjure the best image, if you know what I mean)[/q]

You mean, of course, canceling their hockey team.  ;-)

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I recently had a conversation about this same subject.  The difference depends on where in the country you are.

In the midwest, X State U is the land grant school and generally has an Agriculture School.  U of X is also a state school, but not land-grant.  Wisconsin being the exception, as I don't believe there is a Wisconsin State U.

In the south, U of X was generally the white school.  X State U was the black school.  As in U of Alabama versus Alabama State.

Regarding Slippery Rock, up until the mid-80's all of the Pennsylvania Conference schools were called X State College, such as Slippery Rock State College or Kutztown State College.  In the 80s they Changed to X University to sound better.  That one is pure advertising.

[Josh '99]

[Q]Hillel Hoffmann Wrote:
Here are just a few examples of "public yet private sounding."

Kean
Rowan
William Paterson[/q]I find it a bit strange that Rutgers has recently added "State" to their name, while a number of other public schools (Kean University, formerly Newark State University; The College of New Jersey, formerly Trenton State College; William Paterson University, formerly Paterson State College) have taken "State" out of their names.  If I had to guess, I'd say Montclair State will eventually become Montclair University or some such.

[ninian '72]

Actually, this is true maybe half the time in the Midwest:  Without checking on all of them, states where the "State" university is the land grant/ag school institution:

Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, North Dakota

States where it isn't:

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri

[Dianne 99]

[Q]ninian '72 Wrote:

 Actually, this is true maybe half the time in the Midwest:  Without checking on all of them, states where the "State" university is the land grant/ag school institution:

Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, North Dakota

States where it isn't:

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri[/q]

Add Illinois to the "states where it isn't" category.  There is an Illinois State U., but U. of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign is the land grant school.

[DeltaOne81]

As well as Connecticut. UConn is land-grant based and was Connecticut Agricultural College for a while. The Connecticut State University system (SCSU, CCSU, ECSU) I'm not too familiar with, but I doubt it was ever Ag-based.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 As well as Connecticut. UConn is land-grant based and was Connecticut Agricultural College for a while. The Connecticut State University system (SCSU, CCSU, ECSU) I'm not too familiar with, but I doubt it was ever Ag-based.[/q]

Started as state teachers colleges (e.g., New Haven State Teachers College became SCSU).

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

One exception is the University of Pittsburgh (aka Pitt) which is public.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

 One exception is the University of Pittsburgh (aka Pitt) which is public.[/q]

Scranton and Dayton, both Catholic.

[ninian '72]

[Q]Dianne 99 Wrote:

 [Q2]ninian '72 Wrote:

 Actually, this is true maybe half the time in the Midwest:  Without checking on all of them, states where the "State" university is the land grant/ag school institution:

Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, North Dakota

States where it isn't:

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri[/Q]
Add Illinois to the "states where it isn't" category.  There is an Illinois State U., but U. of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign is the land grant school.[/q]

We can also add Iowa to the list of states where "State" is a land grant school.

[dan]

Has anyone confirmed this scheduale yet (The original post)  Thanks.

[KeithK]

I'm also looking for confirmation that we will in fact be playing next April 8. :-D

[ursusminor]

[Q]dan Wrote:

 Has anyone confirmed this scheduale yet (The original post)  Thanks.[/q] Some of the travel pair contests are backwards. For some unknown reason, they are all listed in alphabetical order. Almost always one of a set of two games against a league opponent is on Friday and the other on Saturday. That is, once a team plays RPI on Friday and the other time they play Union on Friday.

[KeithK]

[q] Some of the travel pair contests are backwards. For some unknown reason, they are all listed in alphabetical order..[/q]Sounds like the weekends are right but the details of which game is which may not have been settled back in November when the original post went up.