On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:59:14 -0400, Christopher D. Green wrote: > Mike Palij wrote: >> On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:43:43 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: >>> Pardon me. That should have been $27.6 BILLION. >> >> On Nov 6, 2010, at 6:26 PM, "Christopher D. Green" <chri...@yorku.ca> wrote: >>> No Canadian (or British or Australian or...) university is the equivalent >>> of >>> Harvard. >>> No Canadian (or British or Australian or...) university has a $27.6M >>> endowment. (http://www.hmc.harvard.edu/) >>> Chris (went to McGill and U. Toronto) Green >> >> Excuse me for being exceedingly dense but I am having a hard time >> making the connection between the size of the Harvard's endowment, >> Larry Summers as Harvard's president, and Harvard's "exceptionalism" >> (in the sense of U.S. "exceptionalism"). > > Yes, I can see that you would. I was responding to Michael Sylvester's > post-script asking what Canadian school was the "equivalent" of Harvard.
I see. However, when I first saw Prof. Sylvester's request for the Canadian equivalent of Harvard I interpreted the statement as saying "in Canada, which college has the status and prestege that Harvard has in the U.S.?" One can interpret Prof. Sylvester's question in a variety of ways but I admit that the size of its endowment was not among the first several answers I had generated. Instead, I thought of the City College of New York (CCNY) which is part of the City University of New York. Quoting from the Wkipedia entry (yadda-yadda) on CCNY: |In the years when top-flight private schools were restricted to the children |of the Protestant Establishment, thousands of brilliant individuals (including |Jewish students) attended City College because they had no other option. |CCNY's academic excellence and status as a working-class school earned |it the titles "Harvard of the Proletariat", the "poor man's Harvard", and |"Harvard-on-the-Hudson".[17] | |Even today, after three decades of controversy over its academic standards, |no other public college has produced as many Nobel laureates who have |studied and graduated with a degree from a particular public college.[18] |CCNY's official quote on this is "Nine Nobel laureates claim CCNY as their |Alma Mater, the most from any public college in the United States."[19][20] |This should not be confused with Nobel laureates who teach at a public |university; UC Berkeley boasts 19. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_college_of_new_york According to the Wikipedia entry, CCNY's endowment is only $131 million, which can't hold a cangle to Harvard's endowment. Nonetheless, the quality of a college is dependent upon many things and though money can play a role that isn't the single most important factor (or even the most important factor depending upon what aspect of a college/university's performance one is concerened with). So, to re-state Prof. Sylvester question: "What university in Canada is the 'Harvard of Canada' ?" -Mike Palij New York Univesity m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6296 or send a blank email to leave-6296-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
