[Sca-cooks] Questions on US Edu. Culture

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 18 Dec 2002, at 15:04, Nick Sasso wrote:

> > > Ivy league
> > No clue, some non-southerner will have to explain this.
>
> A group of specific member Schools in the more Northern Climes that are
> similar in tradition of excellence and expensiveness.  They were so
> named, IIRC, for the ivy that grew on the walls.  Harvard, Yale,
> Rutgers, and some others.  They tend to be scholastically well reputed
> and suck at football most years.
>
> niccolo difrancesco

Not Rutgers.  My husband and I went to grad school there, and it's
a good school, but it is not in the Ivy League.

I have no clue how good the football team is.


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