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Local design elements at Graduate Hotels include, clockwise from right, a Hoosiers-inspired pennant (Bloomington, Indiana); a corncob trophy (Lincoln, Nebraska); a double-barrel-cannon pillow (Athens, Georgia); a Yale plate (New Haven, Connecticut); a wahoo fish (Charlottesville, Virginia); Arthur Ashe–style sunglasses (Richmond, Virginia); a pair of antlers (Madison, Wisconsin); and a little red Corvette lamp (Minneapolis).

The two-year-old Graduate hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan, features colorful pennants that double as DO NOT DISTURB signs, lobby chalkboards emblazoned with mathematical equations that pay homage to the University of Michigan’s

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