My friend Majnails ran across "a remark supposedly made by someone in the Nineteenth Century to the effect that there was one university in France, two in England, six in Prussia, and 52 in Ohio."
Who said this?--asks Majnails, and answers his own question: "Just guessing here but I'd bet on Mark Twain."
Might be Mark Twain, but if you extend the definition of "university" to include "jerkwater cowtown college," then it is very likely true, not so? In the sense that virtually every county-seat town in Ohio had at least one such, maybe two?
Afterthought: but then there is this one.
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