# ivy league

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivy-league/85789>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 6, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivy-league/85789 "2001-10-06T15:30:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Robb\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Robb\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb_S)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivy-league/85789/1 "2001-10-06T15:30:54Z")

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just a small correction - it’s a league of eight undergraduate colleges, not eight universities. (and dartmouth isn’t a university.)

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivy-league/85789/2 "2001-10-06T22:39:01Z")

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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?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mivyleague.html)

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**Author:** ![Robb\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Robb\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb_S)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ivy-league/85789/3 "2001-10-08T07:46:11Z")

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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…