The Big Three of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have dominated American education for more than two centuries, their monopoly lock on the top being broken only in the last thirty years with the rise of Stanford and Berkeley on the West Coast, which has dampened the Ivy League arrogance a bit.
也難怪哈佛、耶魯和普林斯頓「三巨頭」稱霸美國教育整整兩百多年，直到近卅年來，西岸的史丹福大學和加州柏克萊大學崛起才算打破「三分天下」的壟斷局勢，使「長春藤」氣燄稍挫。