Harvard newspaper doesn't want a 4th sorority

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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

We can add Northwestern University to University of Southern California as another elite private exception to the rule that directions hurt prestige. Both schools are older than the oldest public schools in their respective cities.

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.