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Ivy League

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1. Ivy League - Noun

2. Ivy League - Proper noun

Meaning

a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige

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By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. Michael N. Castle

I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea. Benoît Mandelbrot

It's these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They're sedentary guys. It's ironic that you're getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms. Camille Paglia

The first baseball game ever televised was a battle for fourth place in the Ivy League between Columbia and Princeton on May 17, 1939. Andrew Zimbalist

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater. Elizabeth Olsen

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. Ken Auletta

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