Little Ivies

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Little Ivies refers to a group of renowned and small elite colleges in the USA that do not belong to the Ivy League . However, the name does not represent an organization or official association.

Institutions known as Little Ivies are old, small, prestigious, and academically leading liberal arts colleges in New England . The term Little Ivies indicates that these small universities have similar characteristics to the large Ivy League universities.

Scope of the designation

The term is sometimes synonymous with the "Little Three" ( little three ) used so Amherst , Wesleyan and Williams . Strictly speaking, the term “Little Three” refers to an earlier sports league and was used to identify these three schools as a social and academic elite trio, as well as allowing associations with the so-called Big Three of the Ivy League: Harvard , Yale , and Princeton . Encarta defines the Little Ivies in terms of these three schools, which they describe as "small", "exclusive" and "with high academic standards and ancient traditions".

In addition, the term can also refer to the colleges of today's New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), i.e. the Little Three together with Bates , Bowdoin , Colby , Connecticut , Hamilton , Middlebury , Trinity and Tufts .

In its introduction, Greene and Greene's guide refers specifically to the "group historically known as the Little Ivies (including Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Swarthmore , Trinity, Wesleyan and Williams)" who "reached the peaks of prestige and selection criteria, and even thousands of our best and cleverest young men and women ”.

List of Little Ivies

Universities or colleges often referred to as Little Ivies :

institution Location, state founding year Little Three Greene's Guide "Little Ivies" NESCAC Religious affiliation at establishment Further information
Amherst College Amherst
( Massachusetts ) 		1821 Yes Yes Yes Congregational Founding member of NESCAC.
Bates College Lewiston
( Maine ) 		1855
as Maine State Seminary 		Yes Yes Baptists of free will
( Freewill Baptist )
Bowdoin College Brunswick
(Maine) 		1794 Yes Yes Congregational Founding member of NESCAC.
Colby College Waterville
(Maine) 		1813
as Maine Literary and Theological Institution 		Yes Yes Northern Baptist
( Northern Baptist )
Colgate University Hamilton
( New York ) 		1819 Yes Baptists
( Baptist Seminary )
Connecticut College New London
( Connecticut ) 		1911 Yes Methodists
Hamilton College Clinton
(New York) 		1812 Yes Yes Presbyterian
Haverford College Haverford
( Pennsylvania ) 		1833 Yes Quaker tamdistrict.org goldsea.com ucrhistory.ucr.edu (PDF; 129 kB) hclib.org
Middlebury College Middlebury
( Vermont ) 		1800 Yes Yes Informal Congregational
Swarthmore College Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania 		1864 Yes Quaker theatlantic.com tamdistrict.org goldsea.com hclib.org
Trinity College Hartford,
Connecticut 		1823 Yes Episcopal Church
Tufts University Medford,
Massachusetts 		1852 Yes Universalistic no longer a small liberal arts college , but a research university with around 10,000 students, including around 5000 undergraduates and 5000 graduate students .
Vassar College Poughkeepsie
(New York) 		1861 Yes
Wesleyan University Middletown,
Connecticut 		1831 Yes Yes Yes Methodists Founding member of NESCAC.
Williams College Williamstown,
Massachusetts 		1793 Yes Yes Yes Congregational Founding member of NESCAC.
Note: Founding dates and religious affiliation were provided by the institutions themselves. Many of them have complex histories in their early years, and the stories of their origins are subject to interpretation. “Religious affiliation” refers to sponsorship, formal association with, and sponsorship by a denomination. All of the “Little Ivies” colleges are private and currently not affiliated with any religion.

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  1. ↑ Mention of “Little Ivies” ( Memento April 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in: Business Times Singapore
  2. ^ Peg Tire, William Lee Adams: Prep Chic . In: Newsweek , May 4, 2005. "23 percent of Taft graduates attended one of the 'Ivies' or 'Little Ivies' (Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst)".
  3. ↑ Union-News (Springfield, MA), December 5, 1988, p. 13 (quoting an official from Bryn Mawr: “If the Seven Sisters were now Siblings, she asked, did that mean that Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst colleges, referred to as the 'Little Ivies,' were cousins? ")
  4. ^ Students decline Wesleyan offers . In: The New York Times , June 15, 1970, p. 28: "Amherst College, a member with Williams and Wesleyan in the Little Ivy League ..."
  5. ^ David B. Potts: Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England. Wesleyan University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8195-6360-9 , p. 183: “Wesleyan joined Amherst and Williams in early 1899 to form a new 'Triangular League.' Football, baseball and track competition in this league became something of a trial run for later contests in a wide range of sports under the rubric 'Little Three.' ”
  6. ^ John Sayle Watterson: College Football . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8018-7114-X . S. ix: "Wesleyan played big-time football in the 1880s and 1890s ... but a hundred years later they played a small-college schedule and belong to the Little Three, which also included Amherst and Williams."
  7. ↑ collegesquashassociation.com
  8. ↑ Big tuneups versus 'Little Three' ( July 8, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), on dailypennsylvanian.com
  9. ^ The Global Language Monitor ( memento of November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), on languagemonitor.com, of November 24, 2011
  10. ^ Paul William Kingston, Lionel S. Lewis: Introduction: Studying Elite Schools in America . In: The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification. SUNY Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7914-0010-7 , p. Xviii: “More widely recognized is the distinctive cachet of an Ivy League education — and possibly that at the 'Little Three' (Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams) and a small number of other private colleges and universities. ”"
  11. ↑ Revenue Act of 1951. United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Finance, p. 1768. Material by Stuart Hedden, president of Wesleyan University Press, inserted into the record: “Popularly known, together with Williams and Amherst, as one of the Little Three colleges of New England, [Wesleyan] has for nearly a century and a quarter served the public welfare by maintaining with traditional integrity the highest academic standards. " Published by the United States Government Printing Office , 1951.
  12. ^ Henry Duckworth: One version of the facts: my life in the ivory tower . University of Manitoba Press, ISBN 0-88755-670-1 , p. 94, books.google.com
  13. ↑ The 25 Most Desirable Schools ( Memento of 16 September 2010 at the Internet Archive ), on education.newsweek.com
  14. ↑ Little Ivies . In: Microsoft Encarta online . There the definition was supported as the “Little Three” and called “Little Ivies” colleges “that have high academic standards and long traditions but are smaller than those in the Ivy League.” Archived ( November 1, 2009 memento on WebCite )
  15. ↑ In 2005 the following schools were in the NESCAC Institution Directories ( Memento of August 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ): Amherst , Bates , Bowdoin , Colby , Connecticut College , Hamilton , Middlebury , Trinity , Tufts , Vassar , Wesleyan , and Williams .
  16. ↑ An explanation of the Little Ivy name at athletesadvisor.com
  17. ^ Howard Greene, Matthew Greene: Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence , HarperCollins, 2000, ISBN 0-06-095362-4 .
  18. ^ Classifications.carnegiefoundation.org