just a small correction - it’s a league of eight undergraduate colleges, not eight universities. (and dartmouth isn’t a university.)
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, Robb, we’re glad to have you here.
It is helpful if you can provide a link to the column or Staff Report that you are commenting on. Helps others to know what the heck you’re talking about.
I presume you’re commenting on Why do they call it the Ivy League?
Thanks, and yes that was the article in question. (I’ll figure out how to post links next.)
I wonder if the “seven sisters” schools (with which there’s a great deal of overlap) started at the same time…