Universities
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Universities are institutions of higher education and research, which grant academic degrees in a variety of subjects. Each university is, in effect, a corporation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars".
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- Enter by this gateway and seek the way of honor, the light of truth, the will to work for men.
- Edwin Anderson Alderman, inscription on the archway at the entrance to the medical college, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
- Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life — the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
- It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
- Daniel Webster, Oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 10, 1818, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1918).
- "I didn't get the point", said Pig. "That's because you've got four pounds of provolone where most people got brains!", Mark shouted, shaking his fist. "This is college, you dumb bastard. This is a place where you're supposed to argue and learn and get pissed off. You don't go around choking your buddies just because they don't happen to believe what you believe."
- Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline (1980), p. 88
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) [edit]
- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 242.
- Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.
- John Duke Coleridge, C.J., Harrison v. Carter (1876), L. R. 2 Com. PI. D. 36.
- I shall be as tender of the privileges of the University of Oxford as any man living, having the greatest veneration for that learned body.
- Willes, L.C.J., Welles v. Trahern (1740), Willes' Rep. 241.
- I should have all manner of tenderness for the right of the College; they are nurseries of Religion and Learning, and therefore all donations for increase and augmentation of their revenue are to be liberally expounded.
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, L.C., Devit v. College of Dublin (1720). Gilbert Eq. Ca. 248.
- Two universities have been founded in this country, amply endowed and furnished with professors in the different sciences; and I should be sorry that those who have been educated at either of them should undervalue the benefits of such an education.
- Lord Kenyon, C.J., King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.
