In fact, judging from its quadrangles of elegant Gothic-style buildings with their soaring spires and belltowers, one might speculate that the University of Chicago, the same as Harvard, Princeton and other noted private universities, aims at emulating Oxford and Cambridge in England in becoming a quiet and secluded grove of academia.
事實上，從芝大建築多屬典雅的哥德式四合院，不時還點綴著高聳向天的鐘樓、尖塔，可以推測芝大和哈佛、普林斯頓等私立名校一樣，也是以英國的「牛劍」為標的，想成為潛修學術的清靜之地。