Ivy League

Ivy League

1. noun The collective name for the group of eight prestigious universities located in the Northeastern US, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Meredith really wants to go to a school in the Ivy League, but I doubt she has good enough grades.
2. adjective Referring to those universities. Meredith really wants to go to an Ivy League school, but I doubt she has good enough grades.
See also: ivy, league
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Ivy League

A preppy clothing style. Named for the athletic federation of Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale, “Ivy League” described a 1950s and '60s men's fashion: pants with no pleats and a buckle in the rear. The buckle could be used to expand or shorten the waist fit, although it was primarily for adornment. There were also British-influence narrow-brim caps that had a buckle in the back. Why “Ivy League”? The schools were considered (at least by some) to be sophisticated, elite, and thus worthy of emulation, an attitude that their students did little to disabuse.
See also: ivy, league
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • angle
  • angling
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • fire and brimstone
  • bummer
  • swag
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While the element of status associated with an Ivy League degree is undeniable, a salient question is whether or not an Ivy League graduate is any better equipped to perform in his/her chosen discipline than someone with a similar degree from UCLA, Penn State, Cal-Berkeley or any other accredited North American or western European university.
Debunking the Ivy League Mythology
The prestige that you would receive from attending an Ivy League school matters less than what you do with your education.
TANGLED UP IN IVY: Attending an Ivy League school comes with bragging rights and promising career choices--but what if you don't get in?
As the presenting sponsor, Citizens Bank will have a significant presence throughout all facets of the first-ever Ivy League Basketball Tournaments--on television and radio with the Ivy League's media partners ESPN and Westwood One, respectively, as well as on-site at the Palestra and digitally on the Ivy League Digital Network.
Ivy League Partners with Citizens Bank on basketball tourney
He said: "We were very lucky in The Ivy League because we slowly evolved into a cabaret act in the early Seventies, simply to survive.
Sixties and out
Free copies of "Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory" are available for download on the Ivy League Edge website until April 14, 2015.
For the Next Week, to Celebrate Its Grand Opening, Ivy League Edge is Giving Away Free Copies of an Award-Winning Book, "Riffing on Strings"
But Ivy League has yet another, lesser known, utility--one made plain by the 1962 and 2013 ads shown here: It's a handy, slap-on tradition (easily evoked with a few key props) that can take an ordinary clothing brand and give it the rarified air of a Fitzgerald novel.
Yale for you and me: never mind that nearly nobody gets into the Ivy League, but the schools are a great way to give your brand instant cachet
The Union Gapuk will perform Number One single Young Girl, Lady Willpower, Woman Woman, Over You, while The Ivy League, with Dave Buckley, will be singing Funny How Love Can Be, Tossing & Turning, That's Why I'm Crying.
Sounds of the Sixties in Llandudno
Padron has received many important awards and accolades during his more than four decades in higher education, but he recently received a very special distinction from Princeton University: an honorary doctorate conferred during the Ivy League institution's commencement.
Florida's Miami Dade College President Eduardo J. Padron has received many important awards and accolades during his more than four decades in higher education, but he recently received a very special distinction from Princeton University: an honorary doctorate conferred during the Ivy League institution's commencement
"At one Ivy League university last year, for example, there were approximately 2,600 international applications, but only 3 per cent were from the Middle East."
Ivy League universities want diversity
American universities have reported a significant rise in the amount of UK applicants for some of their most prestigious Ivy League schools.
Dramatic rise in UK applicants to US universities
What in the United States is known as the Ivy League? 4.
QUIZ OF THE DAY
Sydney, Mar 23, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - Ivy League Executive Education has established itself in the Asia / Pacific region with its flagship Essential Leadership Skills series after 13 years servicing North America through its related US organisation, The Ivy Faculty Consortium.
Ivy League Executive Education Launches in Asia; Singapore to Offer Essential Leadership Skills Series
FORMER Miss India Neha Dhupia may never make it to the ivy league of Bollywood's leading ladies, but she has no qualms about it.
Neha Dhupia happy playing a sidekick
The hidden Ivies; fifty top colleges from Amherst to Williams that rival the Ivy League, 2d ed.
The hidden Ivies; fifty top colleges from Amherst to Williams that rival the Ivy League, 2d ed
Between 2006 and 2009, the annual ACUI Intercollegiate Clay arget Championships has seen a 40 percent increase in participation, with 37 schools and 337 clay target shooters competing in [the spring 2009] championship." To help this trend continue, NSSF recently awarded $109,000 in grants to help develop and improve the shooting sports at 16 colleges and universities, from Ivy League Harvard to smaller schools such as Kansas' Fort Hays State University.
Collegiate shooting boom