35 Metaphors for university

Yet, if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

Her universities, her institutes for technical instruction, her schools, were a model to the whole world.

I pray you, Monsieur Ploidon, of what university was the first lawyer of?

By CALVIN THOMAS Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinda, published in 1799, was an explosion of youthful radicalisma rather violent explosion which still reverberates in the histories of German Romanticism.

The University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana, where Mozilla, the precursor to Netscape, was first developed was a hotbed of new software development.

And as long as universities are centres of inquiry the same errors, under other names, will have to be combated, but probably not with the same methods which marked the teachings of the "angelical doctor."

We had to walk because, although the University was not more than twenty minutes' distance from the center of the city, there were no street-cars running in that direction.

It must be remembered that the German university is no preparatory school; those who enter it have gone through studies and a mental training that have made them capable of judging for themselves.

This was the common tenet and practice of Poland, as Cromerus observed not long since, in the first book of his history; their universities were generally base, not a philosopher, a mathematician, an antiquary, &c., to be found of any note amongst them, because they had no set reward or stipend, but every man betook himself to divinity, hoc solum in votis habens, opimum sacerdotium, a good parsonage was their aim.

The University of Paris, notwithstanding the embarrassments it sometimes caused him, was always the object of his good-will.

The University is a national body, for education of young men: and the power of a Cambridge Examiner is omnipotent in directing the education of the young men; and his responsibility to the cause of education is very distinct and very strong.

Fitz University was a fine college.

Primary education is largely supported by government grants; there are many excellent schools and colleges; the chief universities are Dublin and the Royal (an examining body only).

It feels that its universities are the laboratories whence issue the thoughts whose significance the world is ever more and more ready to acknowledge.

But the system which turns out a few good scholars every year passes over the heads of the great mass of university students without having awakened them to any intellectual life; the universities are scholarship-factories producing good articles but with a terrible waste of raw material.

The university once was the most celebrated in European cities and was the headquarters of the Jesuits.

SIENNA or SIENA (28), an interesting old Italian city of much importance during the Middle Ages, in Central Italy, 60 m. S. of Florence, is still surrounded by its ancient wall, and contains several fine Gothic structures, notably its cathedral (13th century) and municipal palace; has a university and institute of fine arts; silk and cloth weaving, and a wine and oil trade are the chief industries.

It would appear then that the university of such a future would be by no means a repetition of existing types, such as Oxford or Cambridge, Harvard or Johns Hopkins.

The Michigan University, with its extensive grounds, commodious buildings, medical and law schools, professors' residences, and the finest laboratory in the country, was an institution of which the State was justly proud, and, as the tuition was free, it was worth the trouble of a long, hard siege by the girls of Michigan to gain admittance there.

There are some excellent pictures also; the University of Bologna was, you know, at all times famous and its celebrity, is not at all diminished, for I believe Bologna boasts more scientific men, and particularly in the sciences positives, than any other city in Italy.

You accept the bluff the faculty puts up of pretending the A fellows are really the A fellows, when, in fact, everybody there and all the graduates and everyone everywhere who knows the world knows that the fellows in our set are the ones the university is proud ofthe fellows with manners and appearance and" "The gentlemen," interjected the father, who had not changed either his position or his expression.

The University of Michigan: am encyclopedic survey, IV: The College of Literature, Science and the Arts II.

The University of Arizona was a modern oasis in the center.

At the same time it must be said that the universities and colleges of India are a great deal better than nothing at all, and as there is no other provision for higher education they serve a very important purpose.

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35 Metaphors for  university