They prep at Deerfield and go to Princeton or Harvard, where they end up at ivy or Porcellian.
The New York ivy has become the latest in a string of schools to be accused of sweeping charges of sexual assault under the rug.
From the religious (‘The Holly and the ivy’) to the secular (‘The Chipmunk Song’), my top 20.
His ivy League pedigree, cool rationality, and youth set him apart.
I was one of four students in the 30-year history of my high school ever to be admitted to an ivy League school.
Pembroke was in the background, its grey walls overhung with ivy.
When they were alone in the ivy room she sometimes confided her troubles to Diana.
It was a plain, heavy slab placed horizontally, and the ivy had so run over it that the white of the marble was nearly obscured.
Such a noise of chirping in the ivy at the back of the house!
The dark walls were quite covered with holly and ivy, mixed with the blossoms of laurustinus and some bright flowers.
Old English ifig, from West Germanic *ibakhs (cf. Middle Low German iflof, Dutch eiloof, Old High German ebahewi, German Efeu), of unknown origin; the second element in the Old High German word might be "hay."
Ivy bush as a sign of a tavern where wine is served is attested from mid-15c. Ivy League, inspired by the notion of old, ivy-coated walls, dates to 1933 (perhaps originally in reference to football; it consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale).
