Immortal as the Pyramids: This rivalry can't help but make one think of Oxford and Cambridge across the Atlantic. It just so happens that, like the history of Oxford and Cambridge, Yale--one of the oldest schools in the US--is also an offspring of the mother of US universities, Harvard.
這種雙雄對峙的局面，不禁令人想到大西洋彼岸的牛津與劍橋，巧的是和「牛劍雙璧」的歷史一樣，美國最古老的大學之一的耶魯大學，也是從美國大學之母﹘﹘哈佛大學分出來的。