The “Ivy League” was a proposed intercollegiate association pitched by sportscaster Stanley Woodward during the interwar period and wasn’t formalized until the mid-fifties. It is not an old name for elite schools, as many people believe. Only Princeton and Yale were every “elite” in the sense of class pretension, U Penn was an “honest earner” performance uni, and Harvard and Brown, particularly, were laughingstock shitholes.
Uhgg. "were ever". Word wrap gets me every time.