<p>Wow, they sure are tricky. Do you think they made those uniforms especially for the pictures or do you think they borrowed them from the Toronto Blue Jays?</p>
<p>Wait, was that sarcasm or do they actually not have a football team?</p>
<p>It's a right wing conspiracy to get all of the Democrats to believe that Johns Hopkins really has a football team even though they don't! We tricky Republicans are up to no good again.</p>
<p>In other news...the sky is going to fall tomorrow. Run for your life!</p>
<p>Going back to the topic's original question...</p>
<p>I think Georgetown should be added.</p>
<p>Once again, I agree.</p>
<p>The only problem is that it would probably have to become secular (which I would be fine with... and I'm sure they'd get more applicants that way, too ;)).</p>
<p>notre dame definitely but it will never happen. the name "ivy league" is just too much of a selling point that those colleges will never give that up. its also just an athletic conference so...not happening</p>
<p>The rightful heirs to the throne are the ancient 8 members that are already part of the league. There is no Ivy League application any longer! It's been discontinued....thus there will never be any additions or subtractions from the league.</p>
<p>Division III - University Athletic Association
Brandeis
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
Emory
NYU
U. of Chicago
U. of Rochester
Washington U. - St. Louis</p>
<p>No competition Athletically, but they could hold there own Academically with almost anyone, including most of the Ivy schools.</p>
<p>(Wow! Do they have some travel schedule for Div III!)</p>
<p>As previously mentioned, another good Academics Div III Conference:</p>
<p>The Centenial Conference</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr
Dickinson
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg
Haverford
Johns Hopkins
McDaniel College
Mulenberg
Swarthmore
Ursinus
Washington College</p>
<p>All are in PA or MD</p>
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<p>Ancient? The Ivy League was started in the 1950s, and Cornell was only founded in 1865, 76 years after Georgetown (1789)! So the Ivy league is not at all "ancient," and neither are some of its members.</p>
<p>Duke (Trinity college back then) was founded in 1814, it remained a backwater place until the early 1900's when Duke came around and created the duke endowment</p>
<p>Sempitern, I was always under the impression that Duke was founded in the 1830s.</p>
<p>whoops I was wrong</p>
<p>heres the quote from wikipedia</p>
<p>"Duke traces its origins to Union Institute in Randolph County, North Carolina. The legislature granted a rechartering of the academy as Normal College in 1851, and the privilege of granting degrees in 1853. To keep the school operating, the trustees agreed to provide free education for Methodist preachers in return for financial support by the church, and in 1859 the transformation was formalized with a name change to Trinity College.</p>
<p>In 1887, the Yale-educated John F. Crowell became president of Trinity College. Committed to the German university model which emphasized research over recitation, Crowell directed a major revision in the curriculum and convinced the trustees to move to a more urban location. In 1892, Trinity opened in Durham, largely because of the generosity of Washington Duke and Julian S. Carr, influential and respected Methodists who had grown prosperous through the tobacco industry.</p>
<p>Perkins LibraryJohn C. Kilgo became president in 1894 and he greatly increased the interest of the Duke family in Trinity. Washington Duke offered three gifts of $100,000 each for endowment, one of which was contingent upon the college admitting women "on equal footing with men." By World War I, Trinity College had developed into one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the South.</p>
<p>In December 1924, James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, a forty million dollar trust fund, the annual income of which was to be distributed in the Carolinas among hospitals, orphanages, the Methodist Church, three colleges, and a university built around Trinity College. The president at the time, William P. Few, insisted that the university be named Duke University, and James B. Duke agreed on the condition that it be a memorial to his father and family.</p>
<p>The university grew up quickly. The School of Religion and Graduate School opened in 1926, the Medical School and hospital in 1930, the School of Nursing in 1931, and the School of Forestry in 1938. The Law School, founded in 1904, was reorganized in 1930, and engineering, which had been taught since 1903, became a separate school in 1939. In 1930, the original Durham site became the coordinate Woman's College which was merged back into Trinity as the liberal arts college for both men and women in 1972. In 1938 Duke University became the thirty-fourth member of the prestigious Association of American Universities. The Fuqua School of Business was founded in 1969."</p>
<p>though I do remember reading somewhere that it did have origins in 1814, I'll try to find a source for that</p>
<p>None - we have too many (yawn) Ivy's already .... let's move on to something more interesting....</p>
<p>WashU is considered the Ivy League of the Midwest...</p>
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<p>Only by WashU!</p>
<p>ha ha ha.....so TRUE!!!!!!</p>
<p>And I'm sure they don't hesitate to publish and distribute it in all their propaganda!</p>
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haha so true. actually most people call northwestern the ivy of the midwest, either northwestern or uchicago, but ive heard northwestern more</p>
<p>If you want to go into ivy one-liner propoganda the king is still Michigan's</p>
<p>"...back in Washington, I've heard some people call the University of Michigan the Harvard of the Midwest. I've been there, and Michigan isn't the Harvard of the Midwest - Harvard is the Michigan of the East" ~Then president JFK</p>
<p>I wouldn't put too much stock into any of that crap. Personally, I would consider places like NU, and Uchicago to be better than half the ivy league anyway.</p>