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杨鑫(美国) 发表于 2010-3-1 22:56:59

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The Ivy League is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_conference" title="Athletic conference" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">athletic conference</a> comprising eight private institutions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University" title="University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">higher education</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Northeastern United States</a>. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[2]</a> The term also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">elitism</a>.The term became official, especially in sports terminology, after the formation of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">NCAA</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_I" title="Division I" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Division I</a> athletic conference in 1954,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[3]</a> when much of the nation polarized around favorite college teams. The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[4]</a> In addition, Ivy League schools are often viewed by the public as some of the most prestigious universities worldwide and are often ranked amongst the best universities in the United States and worldwide.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[5]</a> The eight institutions are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University" title="Brown University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Brown University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Columbia University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Cornell University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Dartmouth College</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Harvard University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Princeton University</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">University of Pennsylvania</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Yale University</a>.All of the Ivy League's institutions place near the top in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report" title="U.S. News & World Report" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">U.S. News & World Report</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings" title="College and university rankings" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">college and university rankings</a> and rank within the top one percent of the world's academic institutions in terms of financial endowment.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">citation needed</a>] Seven of the eight schools were founded during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">America's colonial period</a>; the exception is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Cornell</a>, which was founded in 1865. Ivy League institutions, therefore, account for seven of the nine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Colleges" title="Colonial Colleges" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Colonial Colleges</a> chartered before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">American Revolution</a>. The Ivies are all in the Northeast geographic region of the United States. All eight schools receive 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,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[6]</a> making them larger than those of a typical private <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_college" title="Liberal arts college" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">liberal arts college</a> and smaller than a typical public <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_university_system" title="State university system" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">state university</a>. Ivy League university <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">financial endowments</a> range from Brown's $2.01 billion to Harvard's $26 billion, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colleges_and_universities_by_endowment" title="List of U.S. colleges and universities by endowment" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">largest financial endowment</a> of any academic institution in the world. - from wikipedia

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