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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

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Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

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H.G. Wells

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.

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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

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I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

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I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

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After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

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After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

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Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

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Judith Martin

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

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