Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

(01-15-2015 01:19 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

Carolina is the oldest state supported school in the country to offer classes and the only state supported school to graduate students in the Eighteenth Century.

Louisville (then known as the Jefferson Seminary) was the first city-owned public university and one of the oldest universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mtns.

Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

(01-15-2015 02:33 PM)esayem Wrote:  Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 02:33 PM)esayem Wrote:  Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

(01-15-2015 03:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 02:33 PM)esayem Wrote:  Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

Bad dental hygiene.

(01-15-2015 03:25 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 02:33 PM)esayem Wrote:  Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

Bad dental hygiene.

No that's in West Virginia. UNC has the best Dental School in the country.

(01-15-2015 03:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:25 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 02:33 PM)esayem Wrote:  Seminary? Is that where Cardinals came from?

Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

Bad dental hygiene.

No that's in West Virginia. UNC has the best Dental School in the country.

Does the Dental School have fake classes too?

(01-15-2015 03:51 PM)Lucy Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:25 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

Bad dental hygiene.

No that's in West Virginia. UNC has the best Dental School in the country.

Does the Dental School have fake classes too?

No, but it's like pulling teeth getting anybody to go to them.

Why the "three" oldest?

Not that it really matters, but FSU (1851) is the oldest school in Florida and was at various times all male, coed, and military it's first ~50 years of existence.

I've read Miami (opened on the 20s?) struggled financially in its early years after hurricanes hit and nearly folded. I'm sure some other school would've eventually popped back up had it closed down though.

1787 - Pitt (3rd oldest in P5; only Rutgers and Georgia are older)
1789 - North Carolina
1798 - Louisville
1819 - Virginia
1834 - Wake Forest
1838 - Duke
1842 - Notre Dame
1851 - Florida State
1863 - Boston College
1870 - Syracuse
1872 - Virginia Tech
1885 - Georgia Tech
1887 - NC State
1889 - Clemson
1925 - Miami (Youngest in P5. One of 3 P5 schools founded in the 20th century; UCLA and Texas Tech)

(01-15-2015 06:54 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  1787 - Pitt (3rd oldest in P5; only Rutgers and Georgia are older)
1789 - North Carolina
1798 - Louisville
1819 - Virginia
1834 - Wake Forest
1838 - Duke
1842 - Notre Dame
1851 - Florida State
1863 - Boston College
1870 - Syracuse
1872 - Virginia Tech
1885 - Georgia Tech
1887 - NC State
1889 - Clemson
1925 - Miami (Youngest in P5. One of 3 P5 schools founded in the 20th century; UCLA and Texas Tech)

Georgia never had students before UNC. They had a charter, but didn't actually function until after UNC.

(01-15-2015 01:36 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  Louisville ... one of the oldest universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mtns.

Pitt is the oldest, continuously chartered college west of the Allegheny Mountains. Allegheny Genac! Genac! Genac!

Chartered as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, renamed Western University of Pennsylvania in 1819 (intended to be the western counterpart to the University of Pennsylvania), renamed the University of Pittsburgh in 1908, became "state-related" in 1966.




And if we figured our age like Penn does, you could probably add another 10 years. The problem is, most of Pitt's early records burned in city-wide conflagrations, twice.

(01-15-2015 01:30 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:19 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

Carolina is the oldest state supported school in the country to offer classes and the only state supported school to graduate students in the Eighteenth Century.

William & Mary (est. 1693) says "hi."

Admittedly, it was private until the 1900's. Still, it is public and it did graduate students in the 18th century (along with the 17th - I think, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries).

(01-16-2015 05:06 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:30 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:19 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

Carolina is the oldest state supported school in the country to offer classes and the only state supported school to graduate students in the Eighteenth Century.

William & Mary (est. 1693) says "hi."

Admittedly, it was private until the 1900's. Still, it is public and it did graduate students in the 18th century (along with the 17th - I think, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries).

We are very familiar with the history of William & Mary.
You might also be interested to know that William & Mary is the sixth ranked public school in the US News rankings just behind Cal, UCLA, UVA, Michigan and Carolina.

(01-16-2015 07:16 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-16-2015 05:06 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:30 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:19 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

Carolina is the oldest state supported school in the country to offer classes and the only state supported school to graduate students in the Eighteenth Century.

William & Mary (est. 1693) says "hi."

Admittedly, it was private until the 1900's. Still, it is public and it did graduate students in the 18th century (along with the 17th - I think, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries).

We are very familiar with the history of William & Mary.
You might also be interested to know that William & Mary is the sixth ranked public school in the US News rankings just behind Cal, UCLA, UVA, Michigan and Carolina.

*and Cornell ILR, Vet, and Ag

(01-15-2015 03:51 PM)Lucy Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:25 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 03:14 PM)TopperCard Wrote:  Lol, no, but that would make sense. The state bird of Kentucky is the Northern Cardinal, which UofL adopted as the mascot sometime in the early 1900's.

Ironically enough the Northern Cardinal is also the state bird of North Carolina.

The Northern Cardinals in North Carolina don't have teeth

Bad dental hygiene.

No that's in West Virginia. UNC has the best Dental School in the country.

Does the Dental School have fake classes too?

No, the dental school has fake jobs for the parents of basketball players (jobs which happen to involve going to all the away basketball games to "fundraise").

So far, the fake classes have all been in undergrad. They won't have to offer fake dental school or medical school classes until a redshirt senior enrolls in one of those programs.

(01-16-2015 07:16 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-16-2015 05:06 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:30 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 01:19 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Pittsburgh 1787 (22nd in U.S.A.)
North Carolina 1789 (25th in U.S.A.)
Louisville 1798

Carolina is the oldest state supported school in the country to offer classes and the only state supported school to graduate students in the Eighteenth Century.

William & Mary (est. 1693) says "hi."

Admittedly, it was private until the 1900's. Still, it is public and it did graduate students in the 18th century (along with the 17th - I think, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries).

We are very familiar with the history of William & Mary.
You might also be interested to know that William & Mary is the sixth ranked public school in the US News rankings just behind Cal, UCLA, UVA, Michigan and Carolina.

And William & Mary was the source of a major football scandal in the early 50's that triggered the Southern Conference Bowl Ban that caused MD and Clemson to start the exit process from the SoCon. Because W & M was a Virginia school and VT president was the de-facto Conference President, he had in-state political pressure to deflate football - right at the time MD had hired OU's Tatum to bring his anything goes ways to MD.