university
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The universe; the whole.
An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Dare to be wise. (Horace) (Motto of the University of New Brunswick)