Word Finder - college

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A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

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(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

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College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons

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An electoral college.

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An academic institution.

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A specialized division of a university.

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College of Engineering

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An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

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A university.

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Attendance at an institution of higher education.

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These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.

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A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

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A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge; Balliol College, Oxford; University College, London

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An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

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An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

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A high school or secondary school.

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Eton College

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A private (non-government) primary or high school.

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A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

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A government high school, short for junior college.

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(in Chile) A bilingual school.

She'll be going to college next month.

I went to college and studied animal husbandry.

I would never stop you from going to college or doing anything else you wanted to do.

They were paid so well, they didn't need to worry about how to send their two daughters to college anymore.

Our small city should have a college and hospital.

Fred wet his pencil and frowned like a college professor.

I've never been a saint; I saw I could use her, so I put her in college and brought her to work for me.

After you spend a day at college, you go to work at a job where you can sit down the rest of the evening.

The college authorities did not allow Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in American braille.

Before I entered college, however, it was thought best that I should study another year under Mr. Keith.

Now they drop out of college and run off to start corporations.

I did not like his plan, for I wished to enter college with my class.

The college authorities would not permit Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in braille.

College would start soon and she would be leaving anyway.

Between college and work, there wasn't much time left for anything else.

But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined.

But college is not the universal Athens I thought it was.

Both Mr. Gilman and Mr. Keith, the teachers who prepared her for college, were struck by her power of constructive reasoning; and she was excellent in pure mathematics, though she seems never to have enjoyed it much.

It has been alleged that he was a Wykehamist, a scholar at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

Nor was he a commoner in college at Winchester or at New College, as his name does not appear in the Hall books, or lists of those dining in hall, at either college.

He was never claimed in his lifetime by either college as one of its alumni.

The first recorded headmaster after the foundation of the college, John Melton, had been presented by Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement.

In 1910 the college had 59 instructors and 537 students.

Other state educational institutions are the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1889) at West Raleigh, which in1907-1908had 42 instructors and 436 students; the State Normal and Industrial College (1892) for women, at Greensboro; and the East Carolina Teachers' Training School (1907), at Greenville.

In 1877 the Ohio Wesleyan female college,established at Delaware in 1853, was incorporated in the university.

Ercole, who was the eldest of five children early left orphans, began his education at the Piarist college at Urbino.

He was educated at Taunton, Dublin and Belfast, and graduated at Queen's College, Belfast, in 1853.

The town is the seat of the tribunal of first instance of the arrondissement of Poligny, and has a communal college.

He became a student of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.

In 1561 he became a fellow of his college and took holy orders.

Stevenson was a fellow of Christ's College from 1559 to 1561, and is perhaps to be identified with a William Stevenson who was a fellow from 1551 to 1554.

Under the influence of Archbishop Chicheley, who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham, and Thomas Bekynton, king's secretary and privy seal, and other Wyke - hamists, Henry VI., on the 11th of October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, "a college in the parish church of Eton by Windsor not far from our birthplace," called the King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eton by Windsor, as "a sort of first-fruits of his taking the government on himself."

The college was to consist of a provost, io priests, 6 choristers, 25 poor and needy scholars, 25 almsmen and a magister infor mator "to teach gratis the scholars and all others coming from any part of England to learn grammar."

On the 5th of March 1440-1441, the king endowed the college out of alien priories with some scpc, a year, almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester.

William Westbury, who left New College, "transferring himself to the king's service," in May 1442, and appears in the first extant Eton Audit Roll1444-1445as headmaster, was probably such from May 1442.

On the 13th of July 1447 he was consecrated in Eton church, when the warden and fellows and others of his old college gave him a horse at a cost of £6, 13s.

Its site was not that of the present college, but of two earlier halls called Boston and Hare, where the new schools now are.

With a view to an ampler site for his college, Waynflete obtained on the 5th of July 1456 a grant of the Hospital of St John the Baptist outside the east gate at Oxford and on the 15th of July licence to found a college there.

Having obtained a papal bull, he founded it by deed of the 12th of June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into "the New College of St Mary Magdalen."

It must have been at this time that an addition was made by Waynflete to the Eton college statutes, compelling the fellows to forswear the heresies of John Wycliffe and Pecock.

It is certain that he took an active part in the restoration of Eton College, which Edward annexed to St George's, Windsor, in 1463, depriving it of a large part of its possessions.

In the earliest Audit Rolls after the restoration of the college in 1467 there are many entries of visits of Provost Westbury to "the lord of Winchester," which in January1468-1469were for "beginning the work of the church" "and providing money for them."

In the years1471-1472to 1474 Waynflete was largely engaged in completing the church, now called chapel, at Eton, his glazier supplying the windows, and he contracted on the 15th of August 1475 for the rood-loft to be made on one side "like to the rode lofte in Bishop Wykeham's college at Winchester," and on the other like that "of the college of St Thomas of Acres in London."

In the same year that college took possession of the alien priory of Sele, Sussex, the proceedings for the suppression of which had been going on since 1469.

On the 23rd of August 1480, the college being completed, the great west window being contracted to be made after the fashion of that at All Souls' College, a new president, Richard Mayhew, fellow of New College, was installed on the 23rd of August 1480, and statutes were promulgated.

The foundation is commonly dated from this year and not from 1448, when Magdalen Hall was founded, though if not dated from 1448 it surely dates from 1458, when that hall and St John's Hospital were converted into Magdalen College.

The statutes were for the most part a replica of those of New College, members of which were, equally with members of Magdalen, declared to be eligible for the presidency.

Magdalen College School was established at the gates and as a part of the college, to be, like Eton, a free grammar school, free of tuition fees for all corners, under a master and usher, the first master being John Ankywyll, a married man, with a salary of CIO a year, the same as at Winchester and Eton.

The next year saw the appropriation to the college of the Augustinian Priory of Selborne, Hants.

It is remarkable that he gives the same pecuniary bequests to Winchester and New Colleges as to his own college of Magdalen, but the latter he made residuary devisee of all his lands.