Ivy League knew infected the Ivy League colleges". A business writer, warning in 2001 against discriminatory hiring, presented a cautionary example of an attitude to avoid (the bracketed phrase is his): The phrase "Ivy League" historically has been perceived as connected not only with academic excellence, but also with social elitism. In 1936, sportswriter John Kieran noted that student editors at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn were advocating the formation of an athletic association. In urging them to consider "Army and Navy and Georgetown and Fordham and Syracuse and Brown and Pitt" as candidates for membership, he exhorted: Aspects
Ivy League (clothes) class Greaser subculture. The conflict between the two groups features in "Grease", "The Outsiders", "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull", and "Cry-Baby". In a scene in" The Godfather", set in 1946, Michael Corleone is derided as an unlikely assassin because he is a "college boy" who wears an "Ivy League suit." The style was parodied in Clark Gesner's song "The Ivy League Look" from the 1957-58 Princeton Triangle Club musical "After A Fashion". Ivy League (clothes) Ivy League is a style of men's dress, popular during the late 1950s in the Northeastern United States, and said to have originated on