Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletics association, founded in 1954, of eight universities located in the eastern United States. The term has connotations of academic excellence, as well as a certain amount of elitism.

Land ownership

Cornell has the largest campus in the Ivy League with 745 acres (3 km²) of property in Upstate New York. Princeton owns 600 acres (2.4 km²) in a suburban environment. Harvard owns nearly 380 acres (1.5 km²) in an urban settinghttp://www.cityfeet.com/news/newsarchivecontents.asp?local_news_id=724&lCityId=431. The University of Pennsylvania has 269 acres (1.1 km²). Dartmouth, the largest landowner in New Hampshire, owns 265 acres (1.1 km²) in its main campus in Hanover, New Hampshire. When its property in the northern part of the state, which is used for various college activities, is included, the total comes to nearly 27,000 acres (109 km²)http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/secondcollegegrant/. Yale owns 260 acres (1.1 km²) in an urban setting and Brown has 143 acres (0.6 km²) in urban Providence. Columbia owns a total of 82 acres (0.33 km²) in Manhattan: 36 acres (0.14 km²) in Morningside Heights, the 26 acre (0.1 km²) Baker Field athletic complex, and a 20 acre (0.09 km²) health sciences campus. It is notably among the largest private landowners in New York City, fourth only after the city itself, the Catholic church, and Fordham University. Columbia also operates the 157 acre (0.64 km²) Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in the New York Palisades.

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