Ivy League Fencing Championships Ivy League Fencing Championships The Ivy League Fencing Championships (officially, the Ivy League Fencing Round-Robins) is an annual tournament to determine the Ivy League standings in men's and women's fencing. Unlike at the NCAA Fencing Championships, the two events are contested separately. Then men's Ivy League Round-Robin has existed since 1956; the women's since 1982. Currently, six teams compete in the men's tournament, as neither Cornell nor Dartmouth sponsor NCAA men's fencing teams. Brown is the most recent addition to the tournament, first participating in 2006 (Brown had previously had a fencing team, but had not competed in the Ivy
Ivy League university Additionally, each university receives millions of dollars in research grants and other subsidies from federal and state governments. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges. "Planting the ivy" was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. In 1893, an alumnus told "The Harvard Crimson", "In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar. ... the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time." At Penn, graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873 and that practice