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Ivy League
Name given to a group of long-established eastern U.S. universities; also attrib. of the social and intellectual prestige or other characteristics of these universities, or of, relating to, or characteristic of the members or former members of these universities. So Ivy Leaguer, a member or former member of an Ivy League university.
[1933S. Woodward in N.Y. Herald Tribune 16 Oct. 18/1 The fates which govern [football] play among the ivy colleges and academic boiler-factories alike seem to be going around the circuit. ]1939Princeton Alumni Weekly 29 Sept., The ‘Ivy League’ is something which does not exist and is simply a term which has been increasingly used in recent years by sports writers, applied rather loosely to a group of eastern colleges. 1943K. P. Kempton in Sat. Even. Post 22 May 14 (title) Ivy Leaguer. 1949S. Woodward Sports Page xii. 132 For many years the colleges seemed to feel that there was something not quite nice about the press. It was fashionable, especially in the hallowed precincts of the Eastern Ivy League, to snub and bamboozle the sports writers. 1951J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xii. 103 My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton, but I swear, I wouldn't go to one of those Ivy League colleges. Ibid. xvii. 133 The jerk had one of those very phoney, Ivy League voices, one of those very tired, snobby voices. 1959Listener 12 Feb. 283/1 Hemingway's sense of Ivy-League social life and its complex snobberies. 1962‘S. Ransome’ Without Trace v. 49 He could drop his natural guttersnipe talk and sound like an Ivy Leaguer whenever it suited him. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1053/1 James Purdy's Ivy-league rapist. 1970Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 4/6 Rising costs are driving away middle-income students from some of America's Ivy League universities, turning the campuses into places for the poor, supported by scholarships, and the rich, admissions officers say. Ibid., The Ivy League colleges are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. 1973S. Alsop Stay of Execution (1974) ii. 171 Waspish Ivy Leaguers like Roosevelt or Welles. |