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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale ‘02 and we have always been more oriented towards public service-type roles than Harvard. It’s cultural and part of what drew me to Yale over other schools I was admitted to, Harvard included. I can’t articulate it but there is a motto that pops up everywhere at Yale, especially in songs and historic stuff: “For God, For Country, and For Yale”.

Here’s an except from a 1950 issue of the Harvard crimson discussing the differences between the schools- everything in the article rings true of my experience save for some outdated terms (we still had heeling but not wheels), which mentions the phrase:

“The last phrase, probably the most anticlimactic periodic sentence in American literature, is engraved on Gothic walls and Yalemen hearts. "By God, that really means something here," says a professor who switched recently from another college. "I thought it was a gag until I saw it in stone. It is enormously strong as a symbol."”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1950/11/25/yale-for-god-country-and-success/
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Notre Dame called.  It wants its motto back.

Google it. [/quote]

Not to nitpick but Notre Dame didn’t use their similar phrase or put it on the basilica until well after it had been in common use at Yale. There’s some debate about whether or not ND was even aware of how it was used at Yale, but I think the simplicity of ND’s version suggests it came spontaneously, especially given the nature of it first being used on the basilica in remembrance of WWI.

Notably for the English nerds, Yale’s version has elevated literary interest compared to ND’s because of how it employs “for” and “and” and creates a catacosmesis. And now I’ve used that word 3x in my life: HS AP class, college lit class, and today.[/quote]

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