Haverford College competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference and has a rich history in collegiate athletics: Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States ; its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships ; its soccer team is the nation's oldest and won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905 against Harvard College ; its lacrosse team has recently become a national power after placing well in the NCAA championships ; its fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association ( MACFA ) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association ( NIWFA ).

Boston College competes in the Beanpot against the three other major sports colleges in Boston: the Northeastern University Huskies, Harvard University Crimson, and Boston University Terriers.

The team competes in ECAC Hockey along with six other Ivy League schools and is coached by Harvard alumnus, Olympian, and former NHL forward, Ted Donato.

Harvard competes in one of the most heated rivalries of college hockey at least twice each season against Harvard's archrival, the Cornell Big Red, in installments of the Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry.

Harvard competes in the Ivy League, and won the Ivy League Championship in 2007, 2003 and 1994, and were National Champions in 1984.

Brockport competes in the Northeast Rugby Union-Division I league against clubs like Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and

It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed by the law reviews at Harvard, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

A member of the Ivy League has been the U. S. News number-one-ranked university in each of the past twelve years: Princeton University five times, Harvard University twice, and the two schools tied for first five times.

Ivy League universities, particularly Harvard and Yale, as well as " Little Ivy " liberal arts colleges, remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II.

A large amount of graduates from Balmville are noted to attend or have attended Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

In addition, Eleanor Kerlow's book Poisoned Ivy: How Egos, Ideology, and Power Politics Almost Ruined Harvard Law School criticized the school for a 1980s political dispute between newer and older faculty members over accusations of insensitivity to minority and feminist issues.

According to Forbes, approximately 90 % of billionaires with MBAs who derived their fortunes from finance, obtained their master's degree from one of three Ivy League schools: Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, or Wharton.

Press and Brooks Brothers, the latter also being highly associated with preppy fashion, had stores on Ivy League school campuses, such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, during the mid-twentieth century.

Other schools, including Harvard, soon began to pursue similar policies for similar reasons, and Jewish students in the Ivy League schools were maintained at a steady 10 % through the 1950s.

Like the other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships.

Harvard became the first Ivy League institution to win a NCAA championship title in a women's sport, when its women's lacrosse team won the NCAA championship in 1990.

Harvard have been crowned Ivy League Champions 8 times, including most recently in 2003 and 2007, and played in four consecutive Ivy League finals from 2006-09.

As of March 2008, FIRE rated most institutions " red "; of the eight universities of the Ivy League, two were rated " green " ( Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania ), four were rated " red " ( Brown, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton ) and the final two ( Yale and Columbia ) were rated " yellow ".

at four Ivy League schools ( Cornell, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard ), as well as Michigan, Vanderbilt, Baylor, and Stanford universities.

At several Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Yale, Brown and Penn, faculty appointed or promoted to the rank of associate professor or professor are awarded a master's degree ( an AM at Harvard and Brown ; an MA at Yale ) if they do not already hold a degree from the respective university.

In the 1890s the slapstick drag traditions of undergraduate productions ( notably Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard College, annually since 1891 and at other Ivy League schools like Princeton University's Triangle Club or the University of Pennsylvania's Mask and Wig Club ) were permissible fare to the same middle-class American audiences that were scandalized to hear that in New York, rouged young men in skirts were standing on tables to dance the Can-Can in Bowery dives like The Slide.

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Gore was Ivy League educated at Harvard, enlisted and served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and was elected as a United States Representative, a United States Senator, and as Vice President of the United States.

** Their names are plays on rival Ivy League universities Harvard and Yale.

Hanna Rosin, author of God's Harvard, described the campus as " tiny, less like an Ivy League college than like a Hollywood set of an old Ivy League school.

Nickerson Field, Harvard Stadium, Fenway Park, and Alumni Stadium all served as home fields during their time in the American Football League.

While a student at Harvard, Porter majored in fine arts, and continued his studies at the Art Students ' League when he moved to New York City in 1928.

* National Consumers ' League Records. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

He began to draw for the Harvard Lampoon upon his entrance to Harvard in 1888, and in 1891, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students ' League where he worked with John Henry Twachtman and H. Siddons Mowbray.

In 1924 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.

Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.

In the spring of his second year at Harvard, Tom had been offered a job at Northwestern University as an instructor in the English Department.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

He wanted to go back to Harvard for another year of playwriting.

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That summer Tom attended the summer session at Harvard, but he did not ask Mama to send him back in the fall.

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

For this concept of an Advisory Board, ancillary to the Board of Trustees, we are indebted to the late President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell, a master of the subject of the structure of cultural institutions and their administration.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

The editors of this volume and Volume 2, were the late Charles Palache, Clifford Frondel, and the late Harry Berman, all of Harvard University.

The project is currently supported by Harvard University.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

In general, however, the timetable of travel lags considerably behind that of the student at Harvard or Smith.

One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

The presidents of Cornell, Wisconsin, C.C.N.Y., Bowdoin, Vermont, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard and the presidents emeritus of Harvard and Michigan were there.

Winslow Upton after graduation from Brown University and two years of graduate study, accepted a position at the Harvard Observatory.

Kennedy administration policies also have been assailed now from another direction by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators.