When I was growing up, television burned into my developing brain a clear image of what collegiate life was like. The campus is full of gothic academic buildings. In between the buildings are student-filled yards, covered in green grass and dotted with trees. Two of the students in the yard pause from their intellectual discussion to pull the zippers higher up on their jackets as the wind nips at their exposed skin. This is what the young are taught to believe college is like.
People talk about intelligent things.
The leaves are ruddy and the air is crisp and cool. In short, it's New England weather. And this is where the elite school comparison comes in. Harvard is in Boston. Yale is in Connecticut.