Order of The Names
The three colleges, when named together, are often named in the order Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. This happens to be the order in which they were founded—1636, 1701, and 1746, respectively. Founding date is an important point of institutional pride, since it governs the order in which the institutions march in academic processions.
Harvard also has the largest student body, with Yale second, and Princeton third with its small graduate school. Harvard also has the largest endowment of the three, Yale the second largest, and Princeton the smallest; however, Princeton has the largest endowment per capita of any school in the world.
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