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Terrance (thunderbolt126@hotmail.com)
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:22:39 -0500
Scary thought if it's the former....and people think I'm a walking dictionary...and encyclopedia...and atlas...
----- Original Message -----
From: DuckFlesh@aol.com
To: gundam@aeug.org
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [gundam] (OT), Crosspost) George W. Bush is a moron.
In a message dated 2/17/01 5:25:31 PM Central Standard Time, z@gundam.com
writes:
>Elephant tusks are made of ivory, a hard creamy-white modified dentine.
Ivy is
a widely cultivated ornamental climbing or prostrate or sometimes shrubby
chiefly Eurasian vine (Hedera helix) of the ginseng family with evergreen
leaves, small yellowish flowers and black berries.
The term "Ivy League" was coined circa 1939 to describe a group of
long-established eastern U.S. colleges widely regarded as high in
scholastic and
social prestige -- generally Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The term derives
from
the common architecture or these schools, which consisted of castle-like
brick
buildings with ivy-covered halls modeled after the great British
universities
such as Cambridge, Eton and Oxford. The term "ivy" had already been
applied to
Academia in general circa 1933 and, by 1943, students at or graduates of
these
prestigious schools were called Ivy Leaguers. The Ivy League became
associated
with the rich and powerful, who formed their "Old Boy Networks" from among
their
college classmates.
The Ivy League schools lost a lot of their prestige after World War II,
when a
college education became available to more and more people of lesser and
lesser
means, thanks in part to the G.I. Bill and the post-War emphasis on
technology,
which made MIT and Stanford the new schools of choice.
Did you know that off hand, or did you look it up?
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