Monday, April 30, 2007

The True Ivory Tower

Why is academia called the Ivory Tower? I stumbled on a more plausible explanation in “God Created the Integers”, a book about mathematics edited and commented by Stephen Hawking. On page 1124, while discussing Alan Turing, there is this interesting story.

On the campus of Princeton University, there is a clock tower of the graduate college which overlooked a grand dining hall called the Procter Hall. It was named after William Procter, a founder of Procter and Gamble, makers of the Ivory soap. So some graduate students jokingly named the clock tower the Ivory Tower. Believe it or not!

Right next to Procter Hall, indeed there is a Cleveland Tower. Is this the original Ivory Tower? Can someone confirm or refute it?

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