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Ivy League

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Ivy League

Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. It consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Cornell universities, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College.


Ivy League
select group of colleges: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale. [Am. Education: Payton, 343]
See : Education


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The Ivy League is the only DivisionI basketball conference that does not play a conference tournament to determine its automatic bid for the NCAAs.
Abaya laughed at the idea Lakehead was trying to compare itself to Yale; still, they don't intend to expand the campaign to include other Ivy League schools.
RACIAL DIVERSITY AMONG FIRST-year students is increasing at Ivy League institutions and other high-ranking, predominantly white colleges and universities.
 
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