Overall Ranking 1910:
1. Harvard
2. University of Chicago
3. Columbia
4. Yale
5. Cornell
6. Johns Hopkins
7. Wisconsin
8. U. S. Geological Survey
9. Dept. of Agriculture
10. MIT
11. Michigan
12. California
13. Carnegie Institute
14. Princeton
15. Stanford
16. Smithsonian
17. Illinois
18. Pennsylvania
19. Bureau of Standards
20. Missouri
http://unirank.blogspot.com/2012/06/university-rankings-1906-first-attempt.html
Quite interesting.
Princeton & Stanford have since moved up a lot.