Harvard and Yale may be North America’s most famous universities but the east coast home cities of these two “Old Ivies” could barely be more different. Harvard is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an affluent and famously left-leaning locale, once named the US’s most liberal city in a study by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research. It is nicknamed, not always admiringly, the “People’s Republic of Cambridge” and was the first city in the US to elect an openly gay, black man as mayor.
哈佛(Harvard)與耶魯(Yale)也許是北美最知名的兩所大學，但這兩所「常青藤老牌院校」(“Old Ivies”)所在的東海岸城市實際情況卻大相徑庭。哈佛位於麻薩諸塞州坎布里奇(Cambridge)，這兒生活富足，是著名的左派思想大本營，曾被灣區選舉研究中心(Bay Area Center for Voting Research)的一項研究報告評爲美國思想最自由的城市，它被暱稱（並不總是人見人羨）爲「坎布里奇人民共和國」(“People’s Republic of Cambridge”)也是全美首座公然選舉黑人同性戀者爲市長的城市。