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.

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.

On May 14, Harvard won the game under their rules, and the game on the following day, May 15, under McGill's rules ended in scoreless tie.

Kansas trails only Northwestern ( 13 ), Dartmouth ( 6 ), and Harvard ( 6 ) for most tournaments won.

Educated at Harvard, Harris co-directed the short The Redwoods for the Sierra Club with Trevor Greenwood ; the short won the 1967 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.

The tossing of the winner into the lake began several decades ago when a Harvard University male, dressed as a Wellesley student, won the race.

A book based on several years of interviewing and reading materials from China, Canton Under Communism ( 1969 ), won the Harvard University Press faculty book of the year award.

Despite the antipathy between some supporters of the two " formats ," the same team won both College Bowl and ACF Nationals two times at the height of the original ACF's popularity -- University of Chicago in 1994 and Harvard University in 1995.

Ironically, although Professor Mintzberg is quite critical about the strategy consulting business, he has twice won the McKinsey Award for publishing the best article in the Harvard Business Review.

Besides the Nobel, Houssay won many distinctions and awards from the Universities of Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and Paris and 15 other universities, as well as the Dale Medal of the London Society for Endocrinology in 1960.

In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard.

When the Whigs won the 1848 election and returned to power in 1849, Everett resigned from Harvard and resumed political activity in Washington.

His work in galactic structure, astrophysics and the history of astronomy was of international renown and won him an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1936, as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1951.

Harvard has won six men's golf championships: 1898 ( spring ), 1899, 1901, 1902 ( fall ), 1903, and 1904.

The Cleary Cup, awarded to the ECAC regular-season champion, is named for former Harvard All-American hockey player, coach, and athletic director Bill Cleary, a member of the U. S. hockey team that won the 1960 Winter Olympics gold medal.

The Harvard team won the Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships in 2003 and is currently ranked 11th nationally according to Sailing World.

From 1911 to 1958, Harvard won four national championships.

Harvard won the National Championship in 1984, were a national championship finalist in 1981 and 2003, and finished 3rd in 1993.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, and has served as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard, and as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

He won a scholarship to Harvard High School in California in 1984, and later won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and a diploma in medical sociology.

He first won approval from the Harvard Board of Overseers for a new policy that would, in addition to traditional academic criteria, use letters from teachers and interviews to assess an applicant's " aptitude and character ," thus introducing discretion in the place of the strict top seventh rule.

Among his books were " The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A Study in Canadian Government and Politics ," which won the Delancey K. Jay Prize at Harvard University.

While a student at Harvard, Koch won the prestigious Glascock Prize in 1948.