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  1. A collective term for eight long-established
  2. universities in the USA. The term arose from
  3. the pronunciation of IV, the Roman numeral
  4. for 4 - being the first four East Coast
  5. private universities: Harvard, Yale,
  6. Columbia, and Brown. The universities of
  7. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and
  8. Cornell joined the league later to compete in
  9. intercollegiate athletics.
  10.