常青藤联盟英语介绍.ppt

Ivy League The?Ivy League?is a collegiate?athletic conference?comprising 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,?Harvard University, the?University of Pennsylvania,?Princeton University, and?Yale University. The term?Ivy League?has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social?elitism. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious, and are ranked among the best universities worldwide.?All eight universities place in the top sixteen of the?U.S. News World Report2015?university rankings, including the top four schools and six of the top eleven.?U.S. News has named a member of the Ivy League as the best national university in each of the past fifteen years ending with the 2015 rankings: Princeton eight times, Harvard twice and the two schools tied for first five times. 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 an 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. 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. Princetons Ivy Club was founded in 1879 The first usage of?Ivy?in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895–1965). A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil. —Stanley Wood