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Cups (as of 12 August 2008)

The collection focuses by intent on colleges and universities, but it includes a few other cups as well.

Why the collection? During my Harvard faculty years, I taught in the Institute for Educational Management. This was case-based instruction, and the tradition was to disguise the identity of the case subjects. But we always tried to plant a few clues. My clue, from early on, was that I would drink coffee during class using a cup from the actual institution under study. I accumulated lots of cups that way, and got into the habit of buying a cup whenever I visited a campus. Some IEM participants figured out my clue pattern, and some of them decided I needed cups from their institutions, which they sent me and which caused the collection to grow.

Then, one day once I’d moved downriver to MIT, I was teaching myself how to do lists in html (this is back when one actually typed in the tags by hand), needed something for a nested list, saw the cups on the shelf, and made a Web page listing them, the precursor of the one you’re looking at. I eventually linked that to my home page, and so visitors who looked at my page started bringing or sending me still more cups. Next thing you know…

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Colleges, Universities, Schools, etc.

  • american university (white/blue)
  • antioch college (gold/green)
  • babson college-center for executive education (blue/white)
  • boston university-wbur (green gray/white)
  • brown university
    1. (red black/white)
    2. meiklejohn advising program (white green)
  • bryn mawr college (white/blue)
  • california institute of technology (white/blue)
  • cambridge friends school (blue/black)
  • cambridge university (see “university of cambridge”)
  • citadel (blue green white/blue white)
  • college of charleston (maroon/white)
  • columbia university (white/blue)
  • cornell university (red/white)
  • dartmouth college (green/white)
  • depaul university (white/blue)
  • drexel university (white/blue)
  • emory university (gold/blue)
  • george washington university (white/blue)
  • goucher college (gold black blue red/gray)
  • hamburger university (green/white)
  • harvard university (see also "radcliffe college")
    1. graduate school of education (gold/maroon)
    2. graduate school of education (maroon/white)
    3. institute for educational management (blue/white)
    4. institute for educational management (blue white/blue)
    5. midcareer math science (black/white)
    6. principals' center (red black/gray)
  • indiana university (red gold/white)
  • indiana university purdue university at indianapolis (gold/black)
  • loyola university chicago (dark red/white)
  • massachusetts institute of technology
    1. center for educational computing initiatives (gray/cream)
    2. class of 1970 (red/gray)
    3. committee on academic computation for the 1990s and beyond (maroon/gray)
    4. intelligent engineering systems laboratory (blue/white)
    5. project athena (black/white)
  • mcgill university (white/red)
  • miami-dade community college (maroon/gray)
  • miami university (red/white)
  • michigan state university
    1. (white/green)
    2. (white/green)
  • michigan technological university (gold/blue)
  • moscow state university (black/white)
  • naval war college (white/blue)
  • north carolina state university (red black/white)
  • northwestern university
    1. (purple/white)
    2. information technology (purple/white)
  • nova university (blue gray/white)
  • ohio state university (red/black)
  • oxford university (see “university of oxford”)
  • paul smiths college-hotel saranac (white/green)
  • pennsylvania state university
    1. (gold/blue)
    2. (white/blue)
    3. (gold/blue
  • poupon university (yellow black/white)
  • princeton university (orange black/tan)
  • purdue university (gold/black)
  • radcliffe college (red black/white)
  • rice university (white/white)
  • roger williams university (blue/white)
  • rutgers university-school of law (gold/black)
  • san jose state university (black/white)
  • sloan digital sky survey (white/blue)
  • southern methodist university (red/blue)
  • st lawrence university (white/black)
  • stanford university (blue gold red tan green black/white)
  • state university of new york albany (purple/white)
  • stevens institute of technology (red silver/black white)
  • swarthmore college (red gray/white)
  • tufts university
    1. it (blue black/white)
    2. usda human nutrition research center (blue/white)
  • universidad de salamanca (green orange black/white)
  • university corporation for advanced internet development (UCAID)/internet2 (white red/black)
  • university of alabama (white/red)
  • university of california berkeley (blue/white)
  • university of california los angeles (gold blue/blue)
  • university of california san diego (gold white/blue)
  • university of california san diego-scripps institution of oceanography (salmon/blue)
  • university of california santa barbara (yellow/blue)
  • university of cambridge (blue gold/white)
  • university of chicago
    1. (gold/black)
    2. (gold/blue)
    3. (white/maroon)
    4. academic information technologies (salmon/blue)
    5. campus computer stores (red white/black)
    6. court theater (white black/red)
    7. graduate school of business (maroon/glass)
    8. networking services & information technologies (white maroon/black)
    9. networking services & information technologies (silver/maroon)
    10. school of social service administration (maroon/gray)
    11. smart museum of art (red black/gray)
    12. student campaign steering committee (maroon black/white)
    13. gems project (silver/black)
  • university of cincinnati (red/black)
  • university of illinois, Chicago
    1. (white/black)
    2. (black red gold/white)
  • university of maryland
    1. national center for postsecondary governance and finance (red gray/white)
    2. (white/clear)
  • university of massachusetts (blue/white)
  • university of michigan
    1. (blue/yellow)
    2. (yellow/blue)
  • university of minnesota
    1. (white/red)
    2. (gold/black)
  • university of notre dame (gold/blue)
  • university of oxford (many/white)
  • university of pennsylvania (red blue/white)
  • university of southern california (red yellow/white)
  • university of vermont
    1. (gold/green)
    2. (white/green white)
  • university of wisconsin (gold black red/off-white)
  • united states naval academy (blue/white)
  • vanderbilt university (black yellow/white)
  • virginia polytechnic institute and state university/virginia tech (maroon/silver)
  • washington university (red black/white)
  • wbur (gray coral/white)
  • williams college (purple/white)
  • yale university
    1. (gold blue black/white)
    2. (white/blue)
    3. (blue yellow orange violet aqua black grayscale/white)

Companies

  • apple computer
    1. (green red yellow blue/white)
    2. (black/steel)
  • be (red blue/orange)
  • bell atlantic (blue/white)
  • berliner kaffeetasse (black red/white)
  • cable network news (red/white)
  • cnn (red/white)
  • computerworld (yellow pink gray black/white)
  • dell (black/white)
  • ibm-atlanta 1996 (blue red yellow green purple black/white)
  • intecom (white/blue)
  • microsoft (gray/white)
  • milk street cafe (gray green/white)
  • mor associates (white/blue)
  • next computer (white/clear)
  • oracle (white/blue)
  • sct
    1. (gold/blue)
    2. (black/stainless)
  • sun-java (red white purple/black)

Other Organizations

  • cincinnati museums (white/gray)
  • cooperative institutional research program (blue/white)
  • cincinnati museums (white/gray)
  • cooperative institutional research program (blue/white)
  • educom (red yellow/white)
  • indo-american democratic organization (red blue/white)
  • los alamos national laboratory (gold/black)
  • maine maritime museum (blue/white)
  • national air & space museum (yellow brown black/white)
  • smithsonian institution (brown/white)
  • wbez (black red/white)