It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Ivy Plus Institutions
Among the analytical groupings we use to organize our study of Higher Education institutions in the United States are the “Ivy Plus” schools:
Amherst College
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Barnard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
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Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Claremont Colleges
Clark Atlanta University
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Connecticut College
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Duke University
Dillard University
Dickinson College
Davidson College
Duke University
Denison University
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Emory University
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Fisk University
Fordham University
Franklin & Marshall College
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
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Hampton University
Howard University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
College of the Holy Cross
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Johns Hopkins University
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Kenyon College
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Lafayette College
Lehigh University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University (Ohio)
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Macalester College
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New College of Florida
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
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Oberlin College
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Pomona College
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Radcliffe College
Reed College
Rice University
University of Rochester
University of Richmond
Rice University
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Spelman College
Stanford University
University of Southern California
Skidmore College
Smith College
Swarthmore College
Southern Methodist University
Sewanee: The University of the South
Southern Methodist University
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Tulane University
Tuskegee University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University
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Union College
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Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
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Washington and Lee University
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Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wake Forest University
College of William & Mary
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Our definition of “Ivy Plus” is intentially different from the list of instutions who are members of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Our analytical grouping includes the Seven Sisters, the Black Ivy League, a subset of the so-called Public Ivies, and the Little Ivies.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
~ Hannah Arendt
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It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
~ Mark Twain
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
~ Immanuel Kant
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The best of us would rather be popular than right.
~ Mark Twain
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
~ Immanuel Kant
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