Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 14

= April 14 =

Equivalents to Ivy League, Oxford and Cambridge Universities
Are there other universities that are like the 8 universities in Ivy League and Oxford and Cambridge universities in UK in terms of higher education and prestige?


 * The Seven Sisters ? StuRat (talk) 02:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There are a few linked to at [Category:Unofficial college and university groupings]. 70.50.122.38 (talk) 03:36, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * You can link to a category by adding a colon in front of Category, as in Category:Unofficial college and university groupings. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:46, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The universities that really matter in the UK are in the Russell Group. Fgf10 (talk) 07:09, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Much though I'd like to agree, I think the social prestige of Oxbridge far outweighs the Russell Group. This isn't to say that there isn't excellent work being done at some Russell Group universities, but in most of the Russell Group excellence tends to concentrated in a few departments (though a few attain all-round excellence). There is certainly no social prestige to be gained by attending most Russell Group universities. I imagine that the number of parents who call all their friends to say "my son just got into Leeds/Southampton/etc." is a couple of orders of magnitude less than those who announce that "my son just got into Oxbridge". The Russell Group are good universities, but not particularly prestigious in non-academic society. RomanSpa (talk) 17:04, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * In Canada we sometimes say "Canadian Ivy League" to refer to McGill, Toronto...well maybe that's it, just the oldest universities. The major ones are the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities. Adam Bishop (talk) 16:12, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * In Australia the Sandstone Universities are older and more socially prestigious. RomanSpa (talk) 16:51, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Assuming that there's a correlation between age and prestige, our List of medieval universities may be relevant. Alansplodge (talk) 17:09, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The Group of Eight in Australia is a more formal grouping. Hack (talk) 02:01, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The Research Triangle is an informal geographic grouping of well-respected universities and related research ventures. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * If your question is which universities are similar in quality to the Ivy League, you might consider rankings such as this or this. You will see that Dartmouth College, which is in the Ivy League,  ranks below many universities outside the Ivy League in the United States (and elsewhere).  Marco polo (talk) 18:55, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Buckingham Palace
Can anyone confirm in which room of Buckingham Palace the Duke of Edinburgh is sitting for this picture? The article says that the "new east wing" of the palace was designed with an 'oriental' atmosphere, so it is presumably there. Does anyone have anything more specific? Sotakeit (talk) 08:01, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Read the file description, it says Chinese Room. --Viennese Waltz 08:16, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Viennese Waltz, Thanks! Clearly far too early in the morning for me. Sotakeit (talk) 08:39, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Website for DDB Needham Life Style Surveys?
So I am thinking about writing an entry for a useful social service too, the DDB Needham Life Style Surveys (,, , ; other sources - clearly notable). It's just... I cannot find their website. Or any other official listing of their surveys. It seems like they are not available online - or probably, my research skills critically failed this time. Can anyone point me to their website? Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * The WP article on the company behind this is DDB Worldwide, and their website is here, but I can't find any mention of these surveys there. Rojomoke (talk) 11:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Daily E-mail News Briefs
Besides the CFR's Daily News Brief, Quartz, and The Economist's Espresso; are there any daily high-quality "serious" (political, technology, economics, business) e-mail newsletters? I Know about RSS feeds, however I'm searching for the e-mail format in particular. Regards. Matt714 (talk) 22:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)