January 06, 2019 Sunday
Bedtime Story
Ivy League
Average apes also know that Ivy League
universities have reputed standard of education and are extremely difficult to
get admitted into (besides being prohibitively expensive).
But what exactly constitutes Ivy League
universities is much lesser known to most.
Eight private universities that lie in the
Northeastern United States are jointly known as Ivy League.
The eight members of the Ivy League from
the most well known to the least familiar include:
Harvard University – in the state of
Massachusetts and city of Cambridge
Princeton University - in the state of New
Jersey and in the municipality of Princeton
Yale University – in the state of
Connecticut and in the coastal city of New Haven
Cornell University – in the state of New
York and in the lake city of Ithaca
Columbia University – in the state of New
York and in the Upper Manhattan of the New York City
University of Pennsylvania – often referred
to as pen in the state of Pennsylvania and in the city of West Philadelphia
nicknamed as West Philly
Brown University – in the state of Rhode
Island and in the city of Providence and finally
Dartmouth College – in the state of New
Hampshire and in the town of Hanover with a population of less than 10,000
Dartmouth College is also the only university
among the eight to be called as a “College” for reasons that that are probably
historical rather than anything of significance.
Contrary to what one would expect these top
eight Universities were first united not for the reasons of any scientific achievement
or education but intercollegiate athletics and sports.
In 1945 after the War ended the president
of these eight universities or schools as they are also often called signed their
first Ivy group agreement whose core tenet was as:
“The members of the Group reaffirm their
prohibition of athletic scholarships.
Athletes shall be admitted as students and
warded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and
economic need as are applied to all other students.”
Till 1960s these eight schools kept their
undergraduate programs only for men (and perhaps only for white Americans).
Till this date the Ivy League is associated
with the upper class WASPs of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, possessing
inherited wealth and tracing their ancestry to the British gentry of the America
colonial period.
Upper and middle class white students of
affluence still dominate the campus with proportion of less-affluent students
remaining low though attempts are being made to make the student body economically
and ethnically diverse.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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