Ha. My first thought was: wait a second, I went to college up the hill from RISD (even took a class there once semester), and I’ve never heard of this? And then I figured out that this particular mascot was created almost a decade after I graduated.
My second thought was: RISD has sports? (I really had no idea that RISD has sports.)
Brown has an entire COLOR named after it. Sure, not one of the pretty ROYGBIV colors, but still a critically important color if you want to describe coffee or bison or tree trunks or poop.
Dartmouth is the only Ivy League that is a member of “The University of the Arctic”, and has The Institute of Arctic Studies. That makes them the Ivy with the most northern research institute.
On the other hand, while a number of Ivies are Space Grant universities, Cornell is the only Ivy which is a Lead Institution (of the New York Space Grant Consortium).
We all know the Ivy League is first and foremost an athletic conference, so obviously the top school is the one that’s best at Quidditch, which I have now learned is called Quadball among college practitioners. Harvard is the only Ivy League school currently fielding a team, according to a random website I found, and so they are clearly the Top Ivy. You’re welcome.
My kid did this at Bates (not an ivy, of course), which does an official event like this every year called the puddle jump. No alcohol involved before, but probably after.
Graham Blanks of Harvard just won the title at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. First ever Ivy League national champion in XC. So Harvard is tops for distance running.