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Originally Posted by agzg
I wouldn't, because Northwestern no longer really refers to a direction. It certainly did when it was founded, but now it's in the Midwest and isn't even in North-Western Illinois.
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Right. Northwestern never referred to the part of the state it is in, which is what I think of when I think "directional school." It never referred to a direction at all. It was named for the former Northwest Territory.