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1.Background Information: Ivy League 1.Background Information: Ivy League Definition: The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference (大学体育协会)comprising sports teams from 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. Connotations（内涵） The term Ivy League has connotations of : academic excellence（学业优异）, selectivity in admissions（入学条件苛刻）, and social elitism（社会精英主义）. 1.Background Information: Ivy League 1.Background Information: Ivy League Members: The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University(康乃尔大学), Dartmouth College(达特茅斯学院), Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Yale University. 1.Background Information: Ivy League 1.Background Information: Ivy League Time of Establishment: Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period（1493年—1776年）; the exception is Cornell, which was founded in 1865. Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered(特许建立的）before the American Revolution（美国独立战争：1775-1783）. 1.Background Information: Ivy League Enrollments Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000, Total enrollments, including graduate students, range from approximately 6,100 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Penn. 1.Background Information: Ivy League Financial Endowment（捐赠基金） Ivy League financial endowments range from Browns $3.2 billion to Harvards $36.4 billion, the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world. Ivy League universities have some of the largest university financial endowments in the world, which allows the universities to provide many resources for their academic programs and research endeavors. As of 2014, Harvard University has an en