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Little Ivies is an informal term, and not an official body, that has been used in the U.S. to compare small liberal arts colleges to the schools of the northeastern Ivy League in some way, usually in academic quality or in social prestige. While a definitive list of such schools does not exist, they are generally a loosely defined group of small, selective〔The ''Business Times'' of Singapore (mentions Little Ivies ) as "elite liberal arts colleges" that are "small and selective." April 17, 2001.〕 American liberal arts colleges. Institutions identified as Little Ivies are usually old, socially and academically elite, small, exclusive, and academically competitive liberal arts colleges located in the northeastern United States. The colloquialism is meant to imply that Little Ivies share similarities of distinction with the universities of the Ivy League. * It is sometimes synonymous with the "Little Three," Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams.〔"prepchic">Tyre, Peg & William Lee Adams (2005), ("Prep Chic," Newsweek, May 4, 2005 ) "23 percent of Taft graduates attended one of the Ivies or little Ivies (Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst)."〕〔Union-News (Springfield, MA), December 5, 1988, p. 13 (quotes a Bryn Mawr official: "If the Seven Sisters were now Siblings, she asked, did that mean that Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst colleges, referred to as the 'Little Ivies,' were cousins?")〕〔''The New York Times'' (1970): "Students decline Wesleyan offers," June 15, 1970, p. 28: "Amherst College, a member with Williams and Wesleyan in the Little Ivy League..."〕 (The term "Little Three" is well-defined as a former athletic league〔Potts, David B. (1999) ''Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England.'' Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0-8195-6360-9. p. 183: "Wesleyan joined Amherst and Williams in early 1899 to form a new 'Triangular League.' Football, baseball and track competition in this league became something of a trial run for later contests in a wide range of sports under the rubric 'Little Three.'"〕〔Watterson, John Sayle (2002): ''College Football''. Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-7114-X. p. ix: "Wesleyan played big-time football in the 1880s and 1890s... but a hundred years later they played a small-college schedule and belong to the Little Three, which also included Amherst and Williams."〕 and has often been used to identify these schools as a socially and academically elite trio;〔〔http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/node/58050〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.languagemonitor.com/top-colleges/wisconsin-tops-chicago-and-harvard-as-top-university/ )〕〔Kingston, Paul William and Lionel S. Lewis, "Introduction: Studying Elite Schools in America" (1990). In ''The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification.'' SUNY Press, ISBN 0-7914-0010-7. p. xviii: "More widely recognized is the distinctive cachet of an Ivy League education—and possibly that at the 'Little Three' (Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams) and a small number of other private colleges and universities."〕〔United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Finance (1951): ''Revenue Act of 1951.'' p. 1768. Material by Stuart Hedden, president of Wesleyan University Press, inserted into the record: "Popularly known, together with Williams and Amherst, as one of the Little Three colleges of New England, () has for nearly a century and a quarter served the public welfare by maintaining with traditional integrity the highest academic standards." Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951.〕 the term has also been used to compare the three institutions with the so-called Big Three of the Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.〔http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/the-25-most-desirable-schools/williams-college.html〕) Encarta defines "Little Ivies" to refer to these three schools, which it characterizes as "small" and "exclusive" and as having "high academic standards and long traditions."〔(Definition ) at MSN Encarta supports definition as the Little Three and calls Little Ivies schools "that have high academic standards and long traditions but are smaller than those in the Ivy League.". (Archived ) 2009-11-01.〕 * It can refer to the academically competitive members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference〔Upon its founding, the NESCAC ((website) ) included: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams.〕(NESCAC), which included the "Little Three" together with Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Connecticut, and Union. * Greene and Greene's guide, ''Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence'' refers specifically—in its introduction—to "the group historically known as the 'Little Ivies' (including Amherst,Hamilton, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams)" which it says have "scaled the heights of prestige and selectivity and also turn away thousands of our best and brightest young men and women."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060953621/Greenes_Guides_to_Educational_Planning_The_Hidden_Ivies/excerpt.aspx )〕〔Greene, Howard and Matthew Greene (2000) ''Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence'', HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-095362-4, book description at (HarperCollins.com )〕 ==Schools include== Schools that are known as "Little Ivies" include: ">)〕 |- |Union College |Schenectady, New York | | | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 37% | Founding NESCAC member. Left the conference in 1977, now completes athletically in the Liberty League. |- |Vassar College |Poughkeepsie, New York | | align="center" | 20px | | align="center" | 23.7% | Competes athletically in the Liberty League. |- |Wesleyan University |Middletown, Connecticut | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 21.9% | Founding NESCAC member. |- |Williams College |Williamstown, Massachusetts | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 20px | align="center" | 16.8% | Founding NESCAC member. |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Ivies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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