"Not even the world's most prestigious place of learning is immune..." [1]
"[Summers] runs the world's most prestigious university..." [2]
Describes Harvard and Yale as "...two of the world's most prestigious universities..." [3]
"As one of the world's most prestigious universities, Harvard's...." [4]
"An institution of immense prestige, wealth and influence, Harvard University [in the 1970s] was ranked among the very finest private research universities in the world." Hoerr, John (1997): We Can't Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard; Temple University Press, ISBN 1566395356
"...Harvard University, the oldest, richest, and most famous of American seats of learning." Baedeker's United States,1893. 1975 reprint: Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306713411
