College Websites
| Mostly as inspirations for fictional settings, but of use in their own right I'm sure. |
| Search Engines |
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Rankings ranks top 339 schools based on various factors. |
| U 101 College Search: Directory of Colleges, Universities, and Online Education in North America. |
| Campus Explorer |
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Universities.com: 10,000 schools across the world, it says; requires login, which I haven't done yet. |
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Individual Colleges |
| University of Arkansas I liked the Victorian main building. Campus Photo Tour |
| University of Tennessee web page. Ayres Hall is the inspiration for the main building on the Hill. |
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University of Georgia web page, and Yahoo index for UGA |
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Athens on the Internet: some more links from the UGA library. |
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UGA Housing; Plans to make UGA feel like north campus. |
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UNC-Ashville pop.3211 |
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Dartmouth College website, DC Library website, UMass at Dartmouth, Town of Dartmouth; over 5,000 students |
| Appalachian State University pop. 13,762 |
| Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC pop.1439, est 1891 |
| Lees-McRae College, a picturesque school in Banner Elk, NC; pop 700, est. 1900 |
| Elon University in Burlington, NC. pop 4600 |
| Davidson College in Davidson, NC. pop 1600, est. 1837. |
| University of the South in Sewanee, TN pop. 1300 undergrads, 100 theology students, est 1857. An Episcopal liberal arts college. |
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Yale is slightly smaller and a lot richer than Harrison. pop. 5286 |
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Princeton pop. 4663 |
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Boston College pop. 9000 |
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Washington and Lee pop.1768 |
| University of Virginia pop. 18,848 |
| St. Andrews in Delaware: Not a college, but as it was featured in Dead Poet's Society it has a good pastsense to it. |
| St. Joseph College |
| University of St. Michael's College in Toronto. |
| Eton College: actually a secondary school of approximately 1300 boys. Very upper crust. |
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Wheaton pop. 1551 |
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Grinnell pop. 1338 |
| Hillsdale College in Michigan |
| Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania. pop. c 540 |
| St. Andrews Presbyterian College |
| Architecture |
| Architecture Guide from About.com. |
| Chronology of Architecture in Buffalo, NY |
| Evolution of Princeton Campus |
| Walking tour of the University of Toledo |
| Another Style Guide. |
| Ontario Architectural Styles. |
| Style Guide from Colorado Historical Society, including Collegiate Gothic. |
| Architectural resources in Fort Wayne, Indiana. |
| Clubs, Frats and Secret Societies |
| Wikipedia's entries for secret societies, a list of collegiate secret societies, fraternities and sororities, and literary societies. |
| Tombs and Taps: frats and societies at Yale, from the Freshman Survival Guide. |
| Philomathean Society: claims to the be the oldest continually existing literary society in the US. |
| The Demosthenian Literary Society |
| History of Delta Epsilon |
| The Raven Society of the University of Virginia |
| List of various Fraternal Organizations (not the college type) |
| Online critical resources for Dead Poets Society. Bursary-level study of Dead Poets Society. Wiki page on DPS. |
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Misc. |
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Article on the Value of a Liberal Arts Education |
| Rare Book School is an independent non-profit educational institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects. (Doesn't exactly fit with the rest of the list, but pretty darn cool anyway). |
