University

Examples

• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• George remained four years at a French university, and, applying himself with an unintermitted zeal, obtained a very thorough education. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The word was taken up by the students of Harvard University, and gradually spread throughout the whole country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As a result he was soon after made First Mathematician of the University of Pisa, and also Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke’s Court of Florence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He studied at Leghorn under Professor Rosa, and later at the University of Bologna with Professor Righi. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The famous Cassendi was, in the beginning of his life, a professor in the university of Aix. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The school, chartered in 1753, grew ultimately into the University of Pennsylvania. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They forged the direct primary and the State University out of the impetus within themselves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Davy had already made influential friends, and one of them, Dr. Hope, the professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, was to give him his next step forward. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The second founded a professorship of experimental chemistry at a northern university. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was in a city of Russia, a university--I will not name the place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In sharp contrast to him was the earnest, serious Rowland, of Johns Hopkins University, afterward the leading American physicist of his day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then it happened that in 1764 a small Newcomen engine that belonged to the University of Glasgow was given to James Watt, an instrument-maker at the university, to be repaired. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If there had been any system left to be invented they would have found it out at the universities long before this time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I will read an extract from a letter written by a lady who received the cream: ‘Universities Mission To Central Africa, ‘Mbweni, Zanzibar, March 8, 1881. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This ancient division of philosophy into three parts was, in the greater part of the universities of Europe, changed for another into five. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The laboratories in such works differ from those in the universities only in being more perfectly equipped, and more sumptuously appointed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At all the courts and universities the telescopes were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and put to instant use in the hope of discovering new stars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What was true of the universities was true of the public schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The universities in England particularly, being primarily clerical in their constitution, resisted the new learning very bitterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All such incorporations were anciently called universities, which, indeed, is the proper Latin name for any incorporation whatever. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have in my hands a text-book of six hundred pages which is used in the largest universities as a groundwork of political economy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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