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Posted by ben fisher on January 10, 19104 at 11:57:07:
In Reply to: Where did Ivy League come from? posted by Regan Hall on August 21, 19102 at 13:51:34:
: I am just writing to ask why the top american colleges are called Ivy League? And where did Ivy League come from?
it is my understanding that it was four new england universities (maybe brown, yale, harvard, and princeton) that way back had an athletic league, and it was referred to with the Roman numeral IV, or Ivy
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