Related Clues:

• She is with the syndicate going to Harvard
• Harvard and Yale are in it
• Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale
• Group of US elite universities
• Penn station?
• Brown's one of eight in this climber's class
• Brown's a member of this creepy group
• Universities behaving woollily, ie vaguely
• Prestigious group of US universities
• Roman historian ignoring first class universities
• Cathedral backing on to Roman square — fit for the best colleges
• Northeastern educational octet ... or, in a way, what the ends of 20-, 31-, 49- and 61-Across comprise
• Climber has some distance to go to make US academic circle
• Brown is one of its members, and girl attending class
• The eight US universities that have a similar academic and social reputation to Oxford and Cambridge