ivy league

At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873 and that practice was formally designated as "Ivy Day" in 1874. Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others. Princeton's "Ivy Club" was founded in 1879.
The first known instance of the term Ivy League being used appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on February 7, 1935. Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges, those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States, chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from the colonial era, together with the United States Military Academy (West Point), the United States Naval Academy, and a few others.
The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954. The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period; the exception is Cornell, which was founded in 1865. Ivy League institutions, therefore, account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Ivy League university financial endowments range from Brown's $2.2 billion to Harvard's $32 billion, the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world. Origin of the name Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges. "Planting the ivy" was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893 a alumnus told The Harvard Crimson, "In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar.... the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time.
Ivy League schools are viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked amongst the best universities in the United States and worldwide. All eight Ivy League institutions place within the top sixteen of the U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top nine. A member of the Ivy League has been the U.S. News number-one-ranked university in each of the past twelve years: Princeton University five times, Harvard University twice, and the two schools tied for first five
The Ivies are all in the Northeast geographic region of the United States. Each school receives millions of dollars in research grants and other subsidies from federal and state government. Undergraduate enrollments among the Ivy League schools range from about 4,000 to 14,000, making them larger than those of a typical private liberal arts college and smaller than a typical public state university. Overall enrollments range from approximately 6,100 in the case of Dartmouth to over 20,000 in the case of Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Penn.
根据一种理论，“常青藤联盟”之原名应追 溯到1937年，一位《纽约报》(New York Herald Tribune)体育新闻记者斯坦利·伍德 沃德（Stanley Woodward）先生铸造了此名 词，因美国最古老及最菁英的学校建筑物均 被常青藤覆盖住。另外一个理论对此名词的 解释则较为古老，来自较早称之为“四联盟 ”（Four Leage）的运动协会，成员包括哥 伦比亚大学、哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学和耶 鲁大学。 根据第二个理论，在保持学术传统之时 ，“四联盟”（Four Leage）被写为罗马数 字的“四联盟”（IV League）。读英文字母 时，“ＩＶ” 有著和“Ivy”同样的发音。 不论何种理论是正确的，到1954年时，“常 青藤联盟”（亦是所谓的常青藤团体董事会 议：the Council of Ivy Group Presidents）一词被正式形成沿用。
These schools were known for their long-standing traditions in intercollegiate athletics, often being the first schools to participate in such activities. However, at this time, none of these institutions made efforts to form an athletic league. Ivy covering West College, Princeton University. The Ivy League universities are also called the "Ancient Eight" or simply the Ivies
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在美国，“常青藤学府”一般隐喻著和高 等学习院校有关，但只有一些学校被公认为 “常青藤联盟”。常青藤联盟由美国东北部 之八所学校组合而成： 常青藤(Ivy League)一词通常是指美国东部八所高学术水 平，历史悠久的大学：哈佛(Harvard)成立于 1636年，耶鲁(Yale)成立于1701年，宾夕法 尼亚大学(University of Pennsylvania)成 立于1740年，普林斯顿(Princeton)成立于 1746年，哥伦比亚(Columbia)成立于1754年 ，布朗(Brown)成立于1764年，达特茅斯 (Dartmouth)成立于1769年，和康乃尔 (Cornell)成立于1865年。
The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College,inceton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.
另外，从2004年起，耶鲁大学从“提前决 定申请”改成“提前申请”。其中的差别是 ，如果你提出“提前决定申请”，那等于说 你同意并许诺：一旦你被录取，你答应一定 接受这一录取决定，而且当然也就再不可接 受其它学校的录取。从原则上来说，一个学 生绝对不可以提出两份“提前决定申请”。 “提前申请”则是说：如果你被该大学接受 ，你没有答应一定接受这份录取决定。当然 ，耶鲁大学这一改变更加吸引优越的学生投 递申请。因为如果后来哈佛或其它该学生更 喜欢的大学录取他／她的话，还可以拒绝耶 鲁的好意