Possibly less of a longshot? Possibly not.

[ashnistrike]

1) Lovecraft wrote quite a lot about Miskatonic University, and many of his stories featured professors from the school.  Am I missing a story in which he actually describes the school, or shows classes, or includes academic interactions between professors and students?  Or does it just sit there as an invisible background while people read scary letters from elsewhere?  (And yes, I know that Mount Holyoke gets used in the Whisperer in Darkness film.  I'm trying to figure out if there's anything in the original mythos I need to worry about.)(I'll probably end up using Mount Holyoke too, since Hampshire would be clearly inappropriate. Also since the library is awesome.)

2) Miskatonic is the next thing to an Ivy League.  Given the time period, and also given Lovecraft, it was obviously men-only for quite some time.  Has anyone ever speculated as to its sister school?

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[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That is exactly the sort of list I needed.

I don't remember much description in 'The Shadow Out of Time,' but I may have been distracted by shouting "This is the best library ever OMG why are you whining about it???" I will check.

Oh dear, I do need to reread 'The Thing on the Doorstep.' That is not my favorite. But Wikipedia thinks that Asenath was "the only female student," and I really do need to figure out whether that was the case.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I never got the sense that Asenath was the only female student-- part of the way ze was blending in was not doing anything really exceptional or noteworthy, as I recall. But I also can't remember whether the story says specifically either way.