7 Ware Street Diverging Ivies | Harvard Magazine
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina famously begins, “All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” To abuse that classic brutally, one might say that in flush times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of crisis their differences and vulnerabilities emerge. The eight Ivy universities encompass colleges, graduate and professional schools, and myriad scholars devoted to research. Their surroundings and scale vary, as do their disciplinary profiles (Princeton is a liberal-arts institution with limited professional schooling; Yale is renowned fo...