re: Random useless facts.

And just to be clear, you're stating that as fact is incorrect. No one knows for certain why it evolved into Ivy. There are multiple theories.

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“You are never going to get an answer on where the name came from,” said Dartmouth College professor Jere Daniell. Daniell is the Dartmouth history department’s expert on the history of New England and is the unofficial historian of the college.

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Some theorize that Ivy is actually a misnomer and the league was originally called the IV League because it consisted of four schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth.

There is little evidence to ever support this being a term people actually used, Daniell said.

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The story with the “most currency,” according to Daniell, is that the term arose from “casual use by a reporter.”

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Well done, Chris...