When, from the ivied College Hall The lights begin to glimmer, And forth they stroll at even-fall To watch the starlight shimmer. In the midth century, Harvard students began "planting the ivy" on Class Day.
Students also gathered to hear "the ivy oration," a speech originally given by a fellow student. This 19th-century association between ivy and elite private schools would eventually lend the athletic conference its name.
For centuries, Ivy League students were almost exclusively white, wealthy, and male. Although the makeup of the student body has changed somewhat since the early years, privileged students still make up a large percentage of Ivy League attendees.
Similarly, many Ivy League schools did not admit women until the s and '70s. Ivy League graduates continually resisted efforts to admit more diverse student bodies. A Yale alum echoed this same sentiment in a letter to the school's alumni magazine: "Gentlemen — let's face it — charming as women are — they get to be a drag if you are forced to associate with them each and every day.
Think of the poor student who has a steady date — he wants to concentrate on the basic principles of thermodynamics, but she keeps trying to gossip about the idiotic trivia all women try to impose on men. A Dartmouth alum made his similar feelings known in a letter to the college's trustees: "For God's sake, for Dartmouth's sake, and for everyone's sake, keep the damned women out.
While today's Ivy League schools admit both women and people of color, their racial and socioeconomic demographics remain out of line with society as a whole. Economic diversity also remains an issue in the Ivy League. The Ivy League admissions process considers factors like legacy status and athletics, giving little advantage to low-income students. Legacy preferences, for instance, notoriously prioritize wealthy and white students over other groups of people.
These admissions policies favor privileged applicants and contribute to the diversity problem in the Ivy League. Prestige has defined Ivy League schools from their earliest days. At Harvard's first commencement in , graduates crossed the stage according to their family's standing in society. For over years, Harvard continued to rank students by social status. The popularity of both the athletes who played and the college team rivalries brought in a good deal of attention to the schools as well as revenue from ticket sales.
There have also been academic rivalries between schools. Mostly, these rivalries are a matter of opinion in terms of which school has the most honor graduates, which schools offer the most prestigious scholarships, and what famous graduates have come from each school.
Each Ivy League college has its own unique accomplishments that make it important. All carry a certain reputation with them, and each school has programs that excel primarily in the medical and law fields, making them some of the most sought-after schools in the world. Their admissions process is very selective, which helps the schools ensure that they only accept the best and brightest.
Many famous people have graduated from Ivy League schools, including recent presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Freshman survival guide: Tips for incoming Badgers Freshman year of college is different for everyone, but, especially at a school as large as the University of Wisconsin, Read….
Legend has it that Adams, a proud Fordham graduate, was assigned to cover Columbia University playing the University of Pennsylvania in football instead of covering his alma matter, which at the time was a powerhouse in college football. In the fall, the campus welcomed in the largest class in school Read…. Intercollegiate football at Dartmouth began humbly in with just two games the whole season, both against Amherst College.
Also in , the college joined its first all-sports alliance and along with Williams and Amherst became the Triangular League. The history of intercollegiate sports at Dartmouth, however, began a little more than a decade earlier when Dartmouth attended its first rowing regatta in The fourth-oldest university in America is the University of Pennsylvania and was founded in by famous founding father, Benjamin Franklin. Brown University, founded in , is located in Providence, Rhode Island.
The smallest Ivy League school, Dartmouth, was established in in Hanover, New Hampshire and received a large endowment of several billion dollars.
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