history of ivy league

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>does anyone know the history of how the ivy league came to be,or of how it was decided which schools would be invited to join the ivy league,or in what order the schools were asked to jojin the ivy league, or if any schools declined an invitation to join the ivy league?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1101/bernstein.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1101/bernstein.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>lol. it was 8 schools that wanted to play football with each other.</p>

<p>people are always so surprised to find that out, too</p>

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<p>Yup. People rarely believe it.</p>

<p>Others, though, are like "Who cares about the Ivy League? They're just a bunch of schools that wanted to play football together."</p>

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<p>yupyupyup </p>

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<p>Well, SORT OF TRUE.</p>

<p>But then the reason they thought the group might be compatible, athletically, is that they all had fairly high academic standards, and reached common agreement on a key point: scholarship aid would be need-based only: athletes would not be salaried but would be students otherwise qualified to enroll.</p>