Ivy League

The Ivy League is a league in U.S. college sports, which is composed of the most athletic teams of eight of the oldest universities in the United States.

The term is, however, mostly used outside the university sports where it describes a group of eight elite universities in the northeastern United States. In this context, the term is often associated with academic excellence, strict selection in the admission and with social elitism. Among other things, it is also used for short to identify the legal elite of the east coast.

Origin of the name

The most common explanation for the name is that the word ivy, hence " Ivy ", an allusion to the vegetation of the buildings of comparatively old universities was. However, others are of the opinion that the league so hot because the Ivy League first only four universities to have heard: The use of the word Ivy goes according to this theory back to the pronunciation form of the Roman number IV (4). The League of Four was thus the name of the football league from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton. The Universities of Brown, Cornell and Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College, initially opposed to this league, were at the beginning of the 20th century part of the composite.

Historically, the name goes back to the time when the eight universities in 1945 merged in a football league called Ivy Group Agreement, in no scholarships are awarded to potential students based on their athletic performance. In 1954 an extension to almost all sports competitions between these universities. ( In some sports teams that universities play in other leagues, in which also participate in other universities. )

Members

Columbia University (Columbia Lions ) In lumine tuo videbimus volume ("In your light we see 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 found an institution where any person can study any subject " ) Ithaca, New York founded in 1865

Dartmouth College ( Dartmouth Big Green ) Vox clamantis in deserto ( "The voice of one crying in the wilderness " ) Hanover, New Hampshire Founded 1769

Harvard University (Harvard Crimson) Veritas ( "Truth" ) Cambridge, Massachusetts, college founded in 1636, the University established in 1780

University of Pennsylvania ( Penn Quakers ) Leges sine moribus vanae ( "Laws without morals are useless " ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded in 1740

Princeton University ( Princeton Tigers ) Dei sub Numine Viget ( "Under God's power she flourishes " ) 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

For the six leading universities under the auspices of the Catholic Church of the U.S., the term of the Catholic Ivy League will be used. These include the following institutions:

• Boston College, Boston
• College of the Holy Cross, Worcester (Massachusetts )
• Fordham University, New York
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• Notre Dame University, South Bend (Indiana)
• Villanova University, Villanova (Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia