Ivy League
| Ivy League | |
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| Founded | 1954 |
| division | Division I FCS |
| Members | 8th |
| sports | (Men: 17; women: 16) |
| region | Northeast |
| Headquarters | Princeton , New Jersey |
| Commissioner | Robin Harris (since 2009) |
| Website | ivyleaguesports.com |
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The Ivy League is, in the narrower sense, a league of the NCAA Division I in US university sports, made up of most of the sports teams from the eight elite universities in the northeastern United States.
The term is used in a broader sense outside of college sports and refers to this group of eight private universities: Brown , Columbia , Cornell , Dartmouth , Harvard , Princeton , Pennsylvania, and Yale . The eight Ivy League universities are considered to be some of the most prestigious universities in the world as they are all ranked among the top 20 universities in the US and have very selective admission rates, mostly in the single-digit percentage range.
Origin of the name
The most common explanation for the name is that the word Ivy ( Ivy ) is an allusion to the vegetation of the building of the comparatively old universities. Others, however, are of the opinion that the league is so named because initially only four universities belonged to the Ivy League : According to this theory, the use of the word Ivy goes back to the pronunciation of the Roman numeral IV (4). The League of Four was thus the name of the football league of Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, initially opponents of this league, became part of it at the beginning of the 20th century.
Historically, the name goes back to the time when the eight universities merged in 1945 in a football league called the Ivy Group Agreement , in which - unlike in other American universities - no scholarships were awarded on the basis of athletic achievements. In 1954 there was an expansion to include almost all sports competitions between these universities.
Members
Brown University
( Brown Bears )
In deo speramus
("We Hope In God")
Providence , Rhode Island , founded in 1764
Columbia University
( Columbia Lions )
In lumine tuo videbimus lumen
(“In your light we shall see the light”)
New York City , New York , founded in 1754
Cornell University
( Cornell Big Red )
I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study
( "I wanted to create an institution can study at any person each subject")
Ithaca , New York , founded in 1865
Dartmouth College
( Dartmouth Big Green )
Vox clamantis in deserto
("The voice of a caller in the desert")
Hanover , New Hampshire , founded in 1769
Harvard University
( Harvard Crimson )
Veritas
("Truth")
Cambridge , Massachusetts , college founded in 1636, university founded in 1780
University of Pennsylvania
( Penn Quakers )
Leges sine moribus vanae
("Laws without morality are useless")
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , founded in 1740
Princeton University
( Princeton Tigers )
Vet [us] nov [um] testamentum
("Old and New Testament") / Dei sub numine viget
("It flourishes under God's power")
Princeton , New Jersey , founded in 1746
Yale University
( Yale Bulldogs )
אורים ותמים( urim v'tumim ) / Lux et veritas
("Light and Truth")
New Haven , Connecticut , founded in 1701
Catholic Ivy League
The term Catholic Ivy League is sometimes used for six leading universities under the auspices of the Catholic Church of the United States . These include the following institutions:
- Boston College , Boston
- College of the Holy Cross , Worcester, Massachusetts
- Fordham University , New York
- Georgetown University , Washington, DC
- Notre Dame University , South Bend, Indiana
- Villanova University , Villanova (Pennsylvania) near Philadelphia
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ World's Best Colleges . Retrieved July 3, 2009.
- ^ Education . Retrieved June 27, 2014.
- ^ After: Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins . Harper & Row, New York 1988.