Colleges

Examples

• He was past both Colleges, Mr. Chillip said, and the Hall could only poison him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Men and women cannot be brought together in schools or colleges at forty or fifty years of age; and if they could the result would be disappointing. Plato. The Republic.
• This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the price of silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am leaving out our colleges, just as I give Mr. Thornton leave to omit his factories in speaking of the charms of Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Our schools and colleges have helped us hardly at all. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished, more or less, the necessity of application in the teachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am not a lover of the cultural activities of our schools and colleges, still less am I a lover of shallow specialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At the outbreak of the war in 1861 he was president of one of the Presbyterian synodical colleges in the South, whose buildings passed into the hands of the Government. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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