Education from the temple picture.

They are ancient, often overgrown by ivy and Trutzburgen of Education: The eight elite universities in the Ivy League have a reputation as Donnerhall. And incidentally, they also send out - a tour of the Nobel universities in the Northeast of America.

 

They are the best of the best: To see the universities in the U.S. east coast, in America as the Ivy League together, like himself in rankings despite cut
current financial problems as always outstanding. But not only students and professors, the "Ivies" much to offer - even tourists come for a visit at their expense.

Brown at Rhode Iceland, Cornell in Ithaca, New York, Princeton, New Jersey, Dartmouth at Hanover in New Hampshire and Yale in New Haven, Connecticut - they all lie in an idyllic location on the water. Very urban, however, is to be at Columbia University in New York, Boston and at Harvard in the "Penn" in Philadelphia: You lie in the middle of the hustle and bustle of millions of cities.

The name Ivy League, however, is based on a widespread mistake. Because he actually means is not the universities themselves, but their football team. Inventor of the collective concept of tradition is under Stanley Woodward, a sports reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. "

He wrote in 1933 of the "ivy colleges", the "Ivy schools." This name is simply the fact that numerous buildings of the eight universities, mostly before the U.S. Civil War (1861 to 1865) were founded, thick with trees are ivy.

Learning in the cathedral of knowledge

One of the most well-known Ivy League universities, Yale is - and one of the most striking buildings on the campus there is a cathedral, in which students constantly going in and out. But so pious, as it seems, are the "Yali" not. Because the neo-Gothic building with the tower is not a house of God, but the library.

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Originally with the building architect Bertram Goodhue instructed to erect a huge building, which Staatskapitol of Nebraska in Lincoln resembled. But Goodhue was dismissed - and the new architect James Gamble Rogers floated something quite otherwise.

Rogers had the dream, even a church building. So he planned frescoes, high ceilings and seven floors of which 16 were half. Moreover, he gave some 3300 hand-made windows in order - of the characters from literature and history to small insects show everything, what the students in their work address.

Officially called the building "Sterling Memorial Library. Indeed, the Yale graduate John William Sterling, a lawyer in New York law firm, donated approximately 29 million U.S. dollars to the library to build. But like almost all the major buildings on campus has the library received a nickname: "The cathedral of knowledge" to tell the students, told the "Yali" Richard Tao, 21

The Americans with Chinese roots, has a scholarship for his studies - and there would have been due to his achievements even for a university to decide. "But I wanted to this university, because it such a good reputation. And to the East Coast," he says.

Yale goes back to around 500 Puritans, originally further north in present-day Massachusetts and settled in April 1638 to South aufmachten. Under the leadership of Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton businessman presented with their sailboat at the harbor of a small Nests, which was then Quinnipiac - as the Indian tribe, the land of his own called.