KnoxVegas wrote:Anyone know where the term "Ivy League" comes from?
I've heard a couple stories of this..
Most common, and obvious, is the name came from the ivy that grows along the walls of the buildings at Harvard, Penn, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, and Columbia.
Next, "Ivy" came from the roman numeral "IV", meaning something like the four best/oldest schools in the country. Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Yale, maybe? I'm not entirely certain. Anyone know for sure?
Thanks, wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league