With these two universities, there's no escaping history.
Not many teams have dominated a collegiate league the way these two universities have.
These two universities should top the Bowl Championship Series rankings to be released today.
But these two universities, and what they represent, have been in a tug-of-war for over a century.
To understand the place these two universities share in college basketball lore, one would only have to glance at their sidelines on Sunday.
This will be the 102nd meeting in football between these two universities, dating from 1893, with Harvard holding a 71-28-2 advantage.
People often complain that the national debate on higher education is unfairly dominated by interest in entry to these two universities.
Whether you love or hate Oxbridge, the fact that these two universities provide unique learning environments is something of a double-edged sword.
Only someone whose chip was so big that it completely obscured their eyes could be surprised - or consider it undesirable - that these two universities contribute lots of people to some of the more prominent areas of British life.' What follows can only be called an email spat.
But we find no decline in the "importance" or "generality" of the post-1980 patents of these two universities.
