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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,The Ivy league,The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States.The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.,The eight institutions are Brown University,Columbia University,Cornell University,Dartmouth College,Harvard University,Princeton University,the University of Pennsylvania,and Yale University.,In addition,Ivy League schools are often viewed by the public as some of the most prestigious and are often ranked amongst the best universities in the United States and worldwide.,The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence,selectivity in admissions,and social elitism.,Dartmouth College,Dartmouth College a private,Ivy League university in Hanover,New Hampshire,United States.The institution comprises a liberal arts college,Dartmouth Medical School,Thayer School of Engineering,and the Tuck School of Business,as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences.Incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College“it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.With an undergraduate enrollment of 4,196 and a total student enrollment of 5,987,Dartmouth is the smallest school in the Ivy League.,Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock.After a long period of financial and political struggles,Dartmouth emerged in the early 20th century from relative obscurity.Dartmouth alumni,from Daniel Webster to the many donors in the 19th and 20th centuries,have been famously involved in their college.,Dartmouth is located on a rural 269 acres(1.09 km2)campus in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.Given the Colleges isolated location,participation in athletics and the schools Greek system is high.Dartmouths 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I.Students are well known for preserving a variety of strong campus traditions.,Cornell University,Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca,New York,United States.It is a private land-grant university,receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White,the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge,from the classics to the sciences,and from the theoretical to the applied.These ideals,unconventional for the time,are captured in Cornells motto,a popular 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation:I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.,Cornell counts more than 255,000 living alumni,31 Marshall Scholars,28 Rhodes Scholars and 41 Nobel laureates as affiliated with the university.The student body consists of nearly 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 states and 122 countries.,Columbia University,Columbia University in the City of New York(Columbia University)is a private,Ivy League university in Manhattan,New York City.Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York,the fifth oldest in the United States,and one of the countrys nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.,College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain.After the American Revolutionary War Kings College briefly became a state entity,and was renamed Columbia College in 1784.The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees,and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University,Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize and has been affiliated with more Nobel Prize laureates than any other academic institution in the world.The University is one of the fourteen founding members of the prestigious Association of American Universities,and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D.degree.Notable students of the University include nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;20 living billionaires;25 Academy Award winners;and 29 heads of state,including three United States Presidents.,Brown University,Brown University is a private,Ivy League university located in Providence,Rhode Island,United States.Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III(1760,1820),Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.,Brown was the first college in the nation to accept students regardless of religious affiliation.Academically,Brown consists of The College,Graduate School,Alpert Medical School,and the School of Engineering.,Serving since 2001 as Browns 18th president,Ruth J.Simmons is the first permanent female president of the university.She is also the first African American and second female presid。