The collection focused by intent on colleges and universities, but it included a few other cups as well. I deaccessioned most of the collection during an office move, and so this list is my virtual collection: it includes not only the few cups I still own (for the most part, those to which I have some direct or family connection), but also those that have gone to other homes.
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 discussion leaders 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 disguised in the case. I accumulated lots of cups preparing case materials, 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 <li> 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. For years I continued both to buy cups when I visited campuses and to receive donations from those who saw the collection or run across this site, and both still happen occasionally.
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
- (red black/white)
- 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)
- dickinson college
- (white/green)
- (white/red)
- 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“)
- graduate school of education (gold/maroon)
- graduate school of education (maroon/white)
- institute for educational management (blue/white)
- institute for educational management (blue white/blue)
- midcareer math science (black/white)
- 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
- center for educational computing initiatives (gray/cream)
- class of 1970 (red/gray)
- committee on academic computation for the 1990s and beyond (maroon/gray)
- intelligent engineering systems laboratory (blue/white)
- project athena (black/white)
- mcgill university (white/red)
- miami-dade community college (maroon/gray)
- miami university (red/white)
- michigan state university
- (white/green)
- (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
- (purple/white)
- 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
- (gold/blue)
- (white/blue)
- (gold/blue)
- poupon university (yellow black/white)
- princeton university (orange black/tan)
- project bamboo (teal blue purple green/white)
- 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 universityit (blue black/white)
- 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
- (gold/black)
- (gold/blue)
- (white/maroon)
- academic information technologies (salmon/blue)
- campus computer stores (red white/black)
- court theater (white black/red)
- graduate school of business (maroon/glass)
- networking services & information technologies (white maroon/black)
- networking services & information technologies (silver/maroon)
- school of social service administration (maroon/gray)
- smart museum of art (red black/gray)
- student campaign steering committee (maroon black/white)
- gems project (silver/black)
- university of cincinnati (red/black)
- university of hawai’i at Manoa (black/white)
- university of illinois (chicago)
- (white/black)
- (black red gold/white)
- university of maryland (baltimore county) (gold black/white)
- university of maryland (college park)
- national center for postsecondary governance and finance (red gray/white)
- (white/clear)
- university of massachusetts (blue/white)
- university of michigan
- (blue/yellow)
- (yellow/blue)
- university of minnesota
- (white/red)
- (gold/black)
- university of notre dame (gold/blue)
- university of oxford (many/white)
- university of pennsylvania (red blue/white)
- university of scranton (white/purple)
- university of southern california (red yellow/white)
- university of vermont
- (gold/green)
- (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
- (gold blue black/white)
- (white/blue)
- (blue yellow orange violet aqua black grayscale/white)
Companies
- apple computer
- (green red yellow blue/white)
- (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
- (gold/blue)
- (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)
- educause (red/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)