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universities
«Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates»
Author: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(Lawyer, University President)
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Knowledge
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accumulates, freshman, freshmen, seniors, universities
«We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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University
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conception, fifteenth, fifteenth century, suggest, universities, way out
«You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Cambridge, Cambridge University, soda, universities, vending, vending machine
«Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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affectation, affectations, incline, sophistry, universities, wits
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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All Saints, churches, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, geniuses, hostile, monasteries, monastery, of course, of their own, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, routine, routines, saints, seeing, universities, using, youthful