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).
- 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).
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- 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.
