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Ivy League

select group of colleges: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale. [Am. Education: Payton, 343]
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Erstwhile Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey graduated from Yale, inherited a family fortune, purchased the Boston franchise for $1.5 million in 1933, and promptly hired prep-school friend and fellow Ivy Leaguer Eddie Collins as his general manager.
He also plays the lead in "The Catcher Was a Spy," the real-life story of Ivy Leaguer and major league ballplayer Moe Berg, a spy with the forerunner of the CIA during World War II, premiering later this month at the Sundance Film Festival.
Yale sophomore Yupei Guo, for one, does not fit the mold of the traditional Ivy Leaguer from China: Her journalist parents are neither wealthy nor members of the governing elite.
is likable as a guy who takes a randy interest in Ginger; and Alden Ehrenreich makes a welcome appearance as Hal's Ivy Leaguer son.
Whether working with colors of the Southwest the chinos and vests of an ivy leaguer or the tweed and tartan of Britain Lauren makes collections with distinct voices.
The show suggested that blond Ivy Leaguer Greg set out to flirt with you in order to gain some advantage.
CON: He's also not an Ivy Leaguer, having attended the University of Michigan and its law school.
A self-absorbed Ivy Leaguer leaves Yale and heads West to find himself, instead finding God and a whole bunch of nutty salt-of-the-earth types in "C.O.G." The source material may be David Sedaris (this marks the first time the essayist has allowed one of his pieces to be adapted), but the tone couldn't be more Kyle Patrick Alvarez, who once again steers auds to some gloriously uncomfortable places, progressing far beyond debut "Easier With Practice." The Sedaris angle should be a magnet for NPR listeners and queer/liberal/college auds, spelling sleeper success for a distrib willing to stir things up a little.
Whether working with colors of the Southwest, the chinos and vests of an ivy leaguer, or the tweed and tartan of Britain, Lauren makes collections with distinct voices.
Philips Philippines rewarded the Ivy Leaguer with the help and resources to make his project a reality after besting other ideas that could be help the survivors of Yolanda.
Pop's story through the narrative of naive Ivy Leaguer Richard Bellman, who is hired to pull together the aging musician's memoirs.
Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative who founded the National Review and hosted TV's "Firing Line" for 33 years, died Feb.