XPost: alt.usage.english
From: rich.ulrich@comcast.net
On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:11:51 +0000, HenHanna
wrote:
>Why are some uni's The University of xxxxxxxx
> and others xxxxxx University ?
>
It seems pretty natural to me to say University of xxxx when
xxxx is a place. It does not work well for a person's name
Similarly xxxx University is natural when the xxxx is a person's
name, though I feel only a little strain to this ordering for a place.
>
>e.g. The University of California at ...........
California may have been the first to have branches named
that way. I seem to recall feeling it was novel.
My impression is that "at ..." has become pretty standard for
referring to branches of state university systems. IIRC, Texas
set up that sort of naming when the state legislature centralized
their funding for colleges and universities, creating at least a
couple of systems.
Texas Tech alumni were proud of their name and fought successfullly
against the proposed renaming to "Texas State University"; thus, the
odd variation, Texas Tech University.
Wiki -
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public
research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established
on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until
1969, it is the flagship institution of the five-institution Texas
Tech University System.
The larger Texas system is the UT system, based in Austin, having
9 universities and 5 medical facilities.
>
>
>i think ... [U of xxxxxx] is the older format.
>
>
> but Harvard Univ. is the oldest in the USA ?
Wikipedia -- Harvard
Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the
Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of
higher learning in the United States
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