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The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are Brown University , ___MASK75___ University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure - track faculty to continuously engage in research , as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure . Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names . On the one hand , research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the ___MASK96___ brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world , and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts . On the other hand , new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate " real world " applications ; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking . ___MASK70___ is a city in ___MASK94___ County , Massachusetts , United States , in the ___MASK66___ metropolitan area . Ernst Badian ( August 8 , 1925 -- February 1 , 2011 ) was an Austrian - born classical scholar who served as a professor at ___MASK89___ University , USA , from 1971 to 1998 . Badian was one of the leading historians of Greece and Rome of the 20th century . He was born in Vienna in 1925 . In 1938 , in view of the growing persecution of Jews in Austria and Germany , he moved with his parents to New Zealand . There he attended Canterbury College , receiving a B . A . in 1945 and an M . A . the following year . He then went to University College , Oxford , studying under George Cawkwell and getting a B . A . ( First Class in Litt . Hum . ) in 1950 , an M . A . in 1954 , and D . Phil . in 1956 . In addition , he took a Litt . D . from New Zealand ' s Victoria University of Wellington in 1962 . After teaching in the universities of Sheffield , Durham , and Leeds in Britain , and at the State University of New York , Buffalo , he was appointed to ___MASK89___ ' s Department of History in 1971 , and was cross - appointed to the Department of the Classics in 1973 . He became John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus in 1998 . Badian was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 . An active promoter of classical studies in the United States , he helped found The American Journal of Ancient History ( 1976 ) , the Association of Ancient Historians ( 1974 ) , and the New England Ancient History Colloquium . In 1999 Austria awarded him the Cross of Honor for Science and Art ( Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst ) . Badian died at the age of 85 after a fall in his Quincy , Massachusetts , home . He was survived by his widow Nathlie , his children Hugh and Rosemary , and several grandchildren and great - grandchildren . The Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins is housed by the Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University libraries . At the 2012 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians in Chapel Hill , North Carolina , ancient historians T . Corey Brennan and Jerzy Linderski delivered papers reflecting on the historical methodologies employed by Badian . ___MASK89___ University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge , Massachusetts , established in 1636 , whose history , influence , and wealth have made it one of the world ' s most prestigious universities .