And during the next 200 years it ranked at the very top of American colleges along with Harvard and Yale, a situation that has begun to change only in the last twenty years with the rise of Stanford and Berkeley in California.
而其後兩百年間，普大和哈佛、耶魯這三所常春藤私立盟校，更成為稱霸全美學術界的「三巨頭」，直到近廿幾年來，西岸的史丹福、柏克萊大學崛起，情勢才稍有改變。生活在活的歷史傳承中