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Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

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The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.

On a hunch, she called the University of Arkansas.

At the university he made rapid progress, especially in jurisprudence, though preferring the study of history, literature, juridical science and philosophy.

I encouraged him to enroll at nearby Boston University in hopes he'd find an interest.

He went to the university of Leipzig as a student of philosophy and natural sciences, but entered officially as a student of medicine.

In 1907-1908 the university had 122 instructors, 1178 students and a library of 55,395 volumes.

He did something at the university.

The university is one of the largest in the country.

This was a guy from a small town in Iowa who failed his 1933 entrance exam to the University of Minnesota.

His education was completed at the Calvinist college of Sarospatak and at the university of Budapest.

In honour of this great deliverance, the state of Holland founded the university, which was speedily to make the name of Leiden illustrious throughout Europe.

After the war, in 1947, Jonas Salk was offered his own laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

He was attending Bucknell University on a baseball scholarship and working in a New Jersey camp for the summer.

At the age of thirteen he entered the university where he studied under Graevius and Gronovius.

The university of Cagliari, which in1874-1875had only 60 students, had 260 in 1 9 02-1903.

He was privately educated before entering the university.

On the 11th of May 1820 he took his doctor's degree; in the same year he qualified as Privatdozent at the university of Erlangen.

He felt then, and still more after the Reform Act of 1866, that "we must educate our masters," 1 and he rather scandalized his old university friends by the stress he laid on physical science as opposed to classical studies.

Educated at University College, London, he was called to the bar in 1849.

A few weeks later his eldest son, Philip William, count of Buren, a student at the university of Louvain, was kidnapped and carried off to Madrid.

After studying at the university of Prague he travelled through Europe, and among other countries he visited England, where he became acquainted with James Hope (afterwards Hope-Scott) and other leaders of the Tractarian party.

Delaware is the seat of the Ohio Wesleyan University (co-educational), founded by the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1841, and opened as a college in 1844; it includes a college of liberal arts (1844), an academic department (1841), a school of music (1877), a school of fine arts (1877), a school of oratory (1894), a business school (1895), and a college of medicine (the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Cleveland, Ohio; founded as the Charity Hospital Medical College in 1863, and the medical department of the university of Wooster until 1896, when, under its present name, it became a part of Ohio Wesleyan University).

His previous university reputation and connexions, combined with his colonial experience, stood him in good stead.

The formation during recent years of such lectureships as the "Lyman Beecher" course at Yale University has resulted in increased attention being given to homiletics, and the published volumes of this series are the best contribution to the subject.

He was educated at the military school at Berlin and afterwards at the university of Oxford.

He then returned to Pavia, where he pursued his studies at the university under Francesco Brioschi, and determined to seek a career as teacher of mathematics.

In 1860 he was appointed to the professorship of higher geometry at the university of Bologna, and in 1866 to that of higher geometry and graphical statics at the higher technical college of Milan.

In 1873 he was called to Rome to organize the college of engineering, and was also appointed professor of higher mathematics at the university.

He reorganized the university of Vienna and encouraged the development of the universities of Ingolstadt and Freiburg.

Subsequently he entered Berlin University as a student of theology, but soon turned to scientific subjects.

In 1847 he began to act as Privatdozent in the university, and founded with Reinhardt the Archiv fiir pathologische Anatomie and Physiologic, which, after his collaborator's death in 1852, he carried on alone, and in 1848 he went as a member of a government commission to investigate an outbreak of typhus in upper Silesia.

In the choice of these spots two motives seem to have influenced him - the neighbourhood of a university or college, and the amenities of the situation.

About the same time (April 1645) Schoock was summoned before the university of Groningen, of which he was a member, and forthwith disavowed the more abusive passages in his book.

When Descartes complained to the authorities of this unfair treatment, 4 the only reply was an order by which all mention of the name of Cartesianism, whether favourable or adverse, was forbidden in the university.

At Leiden, Utrecht, Groningen, Franeker, Breda, Nimeguen, Harderwyk, Duisburg and Herborn, and at the Catholic university of Louvain, Cartesianism was warmly expounded and defended in seats of learning, of which many are now left desolate, and by adherents whose writings have for the most part long lost interest for any but the antiquary.

In 1671 the archbishop of Paris, by the king's order, summoned the heads of the university to his presence, and enjoined them to take stricter measures against philosophical novelties dangerous to the faith.

In 1677 the university of Caen adopted not less stringent measures against Cartesianism.

From this period dates the castle, and also the buildings of the university, founded by Gabriel Bethlen, and now used as barracks.

He was educated there and at Madrid University, where his Radicalism soon got him into trouble, and he narrowly escaped being expelled for his share in student riots and other demonstrations against the governments of Queen Isabella.

Having received his elementary education at the monastery of Monte Cassino, he studied for six years at the university of Naples, leaving it in his-sixteenth year.

Before he left Paris he had thrown himself with ardour into the controversy raging between the university and the Friar-Preachers respecting the liberty of teaching, resisting both by speeches and pamphlets the authorities of the university; and when the dispute was referred to the pope, the youthful Aquinas was chosen to defend his order, which he did with such success as to overcome the arguments of Guillaume de St Amour, the champion of the university, and one of the most celebrated men of the day.

The "McGill University College of British Columbia" at Vancouver is one of the colleges of McGill University (Montreal).

Fleeming Jenkin was educated at first in Scotland, but in 1846 the family went to live abroad, owing to financial straits, and he studied at Genoa University, where he took a first-class degree in physical science.

In 1868 he obtained the same professorship at Edinburgh University, and in 1873 he published a textbook of Magnetism and Electricity, full of original work.

The university possesses a very important library.

Tubingen's chief claim to attention lies in its famous university, founded in 1477 by Duke Eberhard of Wurttemberg.

The university adopted the reformed faith in 1 534, and in 1537 a Protestant theological seminary, a residential college - the so-called Stift - was incorporated with it.

The university was attended in 1908 by 1891 students and had a teaching staff of over Ioo.

The university of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D.

Two important educational establishments are the Indian Institute for the education of civil service students for thecolonies, to which is attached an ethnographical museum; and the Royal Polytechnic school, which almost ranks as a university, and teaches, among other sciences, that of diking.

Higher education is represented by the provincial university, which teaches science and mathematics, holds examinations, distributes scholarships, and grants degrees in all subjects.