[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Ivy League

[Uk Lushi]

>From: "Uk Lushi" <juniku at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Ivy League
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 05:41:17 GMT
>
>Te nderuar anetare te listave Alb-Club dhe ALBSA-INFO,
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>para disa diteve ne listen Alb-Club pat nje diskutim te vaket per shkollat 
>e te ashtuquajtures Ivy League dhe cdo te duhej shqiptaret te benin te 
>hynin ne to. Per koincidence, para dy diteve, mora shpjegimin e meposhtem 
>dhe e vendosa te ndaj edhe me juve. Teksti dhe historia e kesaj lige, sipas 
>mendimit tim, edhe nje here e theksojne nje fakt shume kokeforte per 
>akademizmin dhe dijen- nuk eshte me rendesi se ku shkon ne shkolle por sa 
>studion dhe shfrytezon ate institucion. Ne kete fryme, kujtoj se per ne 
>shqiptaret ndoshta eshte me e rendesishme qe si, kryesisht, gjenerate e 
>pare e imigranteve ose vijuesve te shkollave te sistemit te edukimit te 
>shtetit me te fuqishem te planetit- SHBA-ve, mbase eshte me e rendesishme 
>te kryejme shkolla aty ku mundemi, gjithmone, natyrisht, duke u munduar te 
>merret sa me shume dije, se sa te vrapohet pas emrave dhe konvencave qe 
>formaliteti shoqeror i krijon gjithkund ku ka qenie njerezore. Keshtu, me 
>nje edukim edhe te pazulmmadh, sigurisht qe do te jete me lehte qe bile 
>femijet tone te tentojne keto shkolla te liges se vecante qe shpeshhere te 
>vecanta i kane vetem pagesat e larta per sherbimet ne misionin e perhapjes 
>se dijes. CALTECH, nje institut shkencoro-shkollor ne California, bie 
>fjala, edhe pse e panjohur dhe ndoshta e vogel, deri me tash botes i ka 
>dhene 27 fitues te cmimit Nobel dhe shume perparime. Me duket se ky eshte 
>nje fakt mjaft aludiv!
>
>Sidoqofte, secilit, suksese ne realizimin e enderrave dhe deshirave dhe 
>shume fat ne pranimin eventual ne ndonje Ivy League shkolle! Dhe shpresoj 
>shume kenaqesi me historine e meposhtme!:-)
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>Uk Lushi
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>P.S. Keroj ndjese nga ata qe jane familjare me keto fakte. Besoj se nuk 
>eshte rende te preket klikuesi i djathte i miut te kompjuterit mbi ikonen 
>DELETE!:-)))
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>>Ivy League is the name generally applied to eight universities (Brown,
>>Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale)
>>that over the years have had common interests in scholarship as well as in
>>athletics. Stanley Woodward, New York Herald Tribune sports writer, coined
>>the phrase in the early thirties.
>>In 1936 the undergraduate newspapers of these universities simultaneously
>>ran an editorial advocating the formation of an ``Ivy League,'' but the
>>first move toward this end was not taken until 1945. In that year, the
>>eight presidents entered into an agreement ``for the purpose of
>>reaffirming their intention of continuing intercollegiate football in such
>>a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting
>>proportion to the main purposes of academic life.'' To achieve this
>>objective two inter-university committees were appointed: one, made up
>>primarily of the college deans, was to administer rules of eligibility;
>>the other, composed of the athletic directors, was to establish policies
>>on the length of the playing season and of preseason practice, operating
>>budgets, and related matters. Two other inter-university committees on
>>admission and financial aid were added later.
>>
>>As President Dodds pointed out at the time, the general principles agreed
>>on by the eight universities were essentially the same as those set forth
>>in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Presidents' Agreement of 1916 (see Big
>>Three).
>>
>>The first step toward organizing full league competition came in 1952 with
>>the announcement that, beginning with the fall of 1953, each college would
>>play every other college in the group at least once every five years. This
>>plan was superseded in 1954 when the presidents announced the adoption of
>>a yearly round-robin schedule in football, starting in 1956, and approved
>>the principle of similar schedules in ``as many sports as practicable.''
>>
>>Thereafter, the Ivy Group (as the league was called in the Presidents'
>>Agreement of 1954) established schedules in other sports, including some
>>in existing leagues with non-Ivy members. As of 1977, the Ivy League
>>colleges competed, round-robin, in football, soccer, basketball, and, with
>>certain variations as noted, in baseball (also Army and Navy), fencing
>>(except Brown and Dartmouth), ice hockey (except Columbia), squash (except
>>Brown, Columbia, and Cornell), swimming (except Columbia, but also Army
>>and Navy), tennis (also Army and Navy), and wrestling (except Brown and
>>Dartmouth). Ivy championships in cross-country and track were determined
>>at the annual Heptagonal Meets, in golf at an Ivy championship tournament,
>>and in rowing at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta.
>>
>>The mid-seventies brought the inclusion of women's teams in the Ivy League
>>program with the institution of championship tournaments in basketball and
>>ice hockey, and a move toward round-robin competition in field hockey,
>>lacrosse, and other sports.
>>
>>Other instances of increasing formalization of the Ivy League occurred in
>>the seventies -- two of them involving Princetonians.
>>
>>Since 1971, the Bushnell Cup has been awarded to the Ivy football player
>>of the year, who is selected by vote of the eight coaches. This trophy,
>>presented to the Ivy League by the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate
>>Football Officials, was named in honor of Asa S. Bushnell '21, the first
>>commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, in appreciation
>>of ``his great contribution to the advancement of college athletics.''
>>
>>In 1973, to provide greater coordination of the athletic interests of the
>>eight universities, the post of executive director of the Council of Ivy
>>League Presidents was created, and Ricardo A. Mestres '31, financial vice-
>>president and treasurer of the University, emeritus, was elected first
>>incumbent. Mestres served in this post until 1976, when he was succeeded
>>by James M. Litvack, visiting lecturer in economics and public affairs in
>>the University.
>>
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>>-----
>>From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton
>>University Press (1978).
>

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