[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Scott Knitter]

In Michigan, the rivalry is between Michigan State (my alma mater) and the U of Michigan. One of the bumper stickers on offer in the MSU bookstores reads, "MSU: THE University of Michigan."

The U of M's colors are maize and blue (although one of their school songs runs, "Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue"). Another MSU sticker says, "You call it maize; we call it corn." Ah, inter-university invective, bless your heart. :)

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> On May 4, 2015, at 5:22 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I suspect that in several states the state university is referred to as 
> "the university".  The University of Texas at Austin has certainly claimed that reference for many years, much to the annoyance of other universities in the Lone Star State, most particularly Texas A & M (officially Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University.  I myself wonder whether the modifiers "agricultural" and "mechanical" undercut the "universe" in "university," but then I am a pedant and a graduate and former faculty member of "the university."  
> 
> A few miles up I-35 in Waco, there is a Southern Baptist institution called "Baylor University."  Some you have no doubt heard of it.  Many Baylor alumni/-ae adorn their car bumpers with a sticker tastefully printed in the Baylor school colors (gold and green) to read "Thee University."