The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the founding of the United States of America during the American Revolution. These nine have long been considered together, notably since the survey of their origins in the 1907 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Image: A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England
Image: Johnston's View of Yale College
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference.
The flags of all eight Ivy League universities fly over Columbia University's Wien Stadium in Manhattan
Soldiers Memorial Gate (1921) at Brown University
Low Memorial Library (1895) at Columbia University
Tjaden Hall (1883) at Cornell University