Nigel Holmes

Cambridge University leapfrogged Stanford into the No. 2 spot (behind Harvard) on the influential annual rankings of the world’s top universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong’s Institute of Higher Education. The rankings put Stanford at No. 3, followed by UC-Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Princeton, Chicago and Oxford. This got us thinking about what Cambridge might have that we don’t, and vice versa.

	STANFORD   CAMBRIDGE     Origin   Founded in 1891 in a former horse pasture   Founded in 1209 at a former Roman trading post     Famous partnerships   Hewlett and Packard   Crick and Watson     Discoveries that changed the world   Spawned Google   Split the atom     Acclaimed faculty requiring only one name   Djerassi   Erasmus     Pastoral sporting green   Sunken Diamond   Center for Cricketing Excellence     Crucial student accessory   Sunglasses   Umbrella