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Yes, the Ivy League is a specific group of eight academic institutions. These schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.

The league was formed in the 1940s by the presidents of the eight schools to foster intercollegiate football competition "in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life."

At first, each school's football team was supposed to play every other school's team at least once every five years. In the 1950s, this arrangement was replaced by a yearly round-robin schedule, and expanded to include other sports. Today, the Ivy League is part of the NCAA, competing nationwide in football, baseball, basketball, and other athletics.

We found our information on a page called Ivy League, which came up as a result of an search on the phrase, "ivy league."

Incidentally, according to a story on the Ivy League's official web site, the "Ivy" part of Ivy League is a reference to the plants that climb all over many of the old campus buildings at each school. The term was inspired by a sarcastic comment from a sports writer assigned to cover a Columbia-Pennsylvania football game. When he received his assignment, he grumbled about "watching the ivy grow." Another reporter overheard the comment and dubbed the prestigious group of schools "the Ivy League."

Another result of our search was a paper that describes the characteristics of Ivy League schools, which include relatively small undergraduate populations, large endowments, prestigious academic reputations, and consistent ranking among the top 15 U.S. universities. The document also names several other universities that are considered in the same "class" as Ivy League schools, Stanford and the University of North Carolina among them.

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They don't have minorities at Ivy Leagues; people get into Ivy Leagues because of family connection rather than work ethic or natural born intelligence.

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Quote: from PrideAndJoy at 2:22 pm on Jan. 8, 2009

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They don't have minorities at Ivy Leagues; people get into Ivy Leagues because of family connection rather than work ethic or natural born intelligence.

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That sounds like bitterness and jealousy to me. Many of the ivies go out of their way to take in minorities and they are some of the most diverse universities in the US.

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And that sounds like arrogance to me.

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Quote: from semibittersweet at 11:28 am on Jan. 8, 2009

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Quote: from PrideAndJoy at 2:22 pm on Jan. 8, 2009

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They don't have minorities at Ivy Leagues; people get into Ivy Leagues because of family connection rather than work ethic or natural born intelligence.

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That sounds like bitterness and jealousy to me. Many of the ivies go out of their way to take in minorities and they are some of the most diverse universities in the US.

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And that sounds like arrogance to me.

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