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Monday, January 1, 2001
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Ivy League
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Ivy League, a group of colleges in the eastern United States, generally regarded as scholastically
and socially prestigious. It includes Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Princeton, and Yale. The Ivy League originated in 1900 as an informal association for football competition;
it was not formally organized until 1956 and then only to set policies for athletic competition.
Source: Encyclopedia Americana.
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