Harvard’s Secret Court: A Cloak and Dagger History of the Ivy League’s Anti-Gay Purges

Secret college societies have lurked in the shadows of the Ivy League since the 19th century, and the rumours and whispers about what happens behind closed doors only adds to the mystery and allure, but there was one secret faction in particular which managed to keep itself hidden behind Harvard’s prestigious reputation. For over 80…

This Girl’s Amazing College Dorm Room is depressingly NOT Yours.

Does this room not make you want to bathe in its warm cocoon of preppyness and revisit those college years once more with brand new stationary and unrealistic expectations for what life has in store ahead? Yes! This is an actual college dorm room, belonging to a freshman no less, at the University of Pennsylvania.…

NYC’s Little-Known “Harvard for the Poor”

The American Ivy League is a powerful label, a prestigious academic ‘club’ that counts household names such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton among its members. The elite label has also been known to leave the “other” universities in the shadows and one such academic underdog sits just 20 blocks from the famous Ivy-League University of Columbia in New…

The Most Exclusive US College that You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

What if I told you there was an elite college as exclusive as Harvard and as remote as the North Pole? That it consistently tops Harvard’s yield rate and evades suspicions of being a cult, that it requires its students to engage in 20 hours of manual labor per week and doesn’t let them leave…

Rodeo University, 1947

While most American universities enjoyed a good old intercollegiate football game, at the University of Arizona, rodeo was the sport of choice. And boy, did they make it look cool… In 1947, for the eight annual intercollegiate rodeo, Life photographer Peter Stackpole paid a visit to the cowboy (and cowgirl) university for the event of the year.…

The 1920s College Kids and the Fur “Pimp Coat” Craze

Man has worn fur since he was living in a cave, but there’s something about this photograph and the fresh-faced young men, all “pimped-out” in full-length fur that stopped me in my tracks. I had stumbled upon a snapshot of a moment in fashion history when American Ivy league-ers and young college undergrads began sporting…

Harvard’s Secret Court: A Cloak and Dagger History of the Ivy League’s Anti-Gay Purges

This Girl’s Amazing College Dorm Room is depressingly NOT Yours.

NYC’s Little-Known “Harvard for the Poor”

The Most Exclusive US College that You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Rodeo University, 1947

The 1920s College Kids and the Fur “Pimp Coat” Craze

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