Re: xxxxx Univ. --vs.-- The Univ. of xxxxxxxx

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:11:51 +0000, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null>
wrote:

Why are some uni's        The University of xxxxxxxx
       and others        xxxxxx  University ?
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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.

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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.

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i think ...  [U of xxxxxx]  is the older format.
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               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