This “genuine American method,” as Charles William Eliot, Harvard’s longest-serving president, called it, became the norm not only for private universities, but also for public institutions, such as the University of Michigan and Purdue University, and even religious institutions like the University of Notre Dame and Duke University.
Tato „ryze americká metoda“, jak ji definoval nejdéle sloužící rektor Harvardovy univerzity Charles William Eliot, se stala normou nejen pro soukromé univerzity, ale i pro veřejné instituce, jako jsou Michiganská a Purdueova univerzita, a dokonce i pro náboženské instituce typu Univerzity Notre Dame a Dukeovy univerzity.