At Princeton, pride in being ranked No. 1 comes in a rolling wave of orange. There are blazers with orange stripes, orange stars and orange tigers as alumni march through campus at the annual Princeton reunion parade, or P-rade.
“Being the No. 1 school and having attended it and/or graduated from it, you naturally retain that for the rest of your life,” says Dixon Hills, a retired physician, Class of ’54, wearing orange-and-black striped socks. “They bring us back once a year to dress in orange and black and pretend we’re undergraduates again, and then we give lots more money at the annual giving.”