Inspired by Harvard’s success, other universities – starting with Yale University and the College of William and Mary – took similar action. This “genuine American method,” as Charles William Eliot, Harvard’s longest-serving president, called it, became the norm not only for private universities, but also for public institutions, such as the University of Michigan and Purdue University, and even religious institutions like the University of Notre Dame and Duke University.
受哈佛成功的启发，其他大学——从耶鲁大学和威廉玛丽学院开始——也采取了类似行动。这一长期担任哈佛校长的查尔斯·威廉·艾略特（Charles William Eliot）口中的“正宗美国做法”不但成为私立大学的标准模式，也为密歇根大学、普渡大学等院校所效仿，甚至圣母大学（University of Notre Dame）和杜克大学也采取了这一做法。