“ Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. ”
- Henry Graff- Copy
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“ Towery city and branching between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
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“ It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
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“ They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. ”
- Thomas Ehrlich- Copy
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“ The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. ”
- Fidel Castro- Copy
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“ Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
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“ It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford. ”
- Dudley Ryder- Copy
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“ They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. ”
- Sir Peter Imbert- Copy
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“ What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. ”
- Horatio Bottomley- Copy
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“ Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony. ”
- John Perry Barlow- Copy
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“ The interesting thing about Oberlin College as it differs from other more urban schools or universities is that it is a walking campus. ”
- Minoru Yamasaki- Copy
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“ Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a type of weevil. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia. ”
- Julian Bond- Copy
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“ Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision. ”
- Kobe Bryant- Copy
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“ All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. ”
- Constance Baker Motley- Copy
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“ After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
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“ I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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“ You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know. ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
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“ It is easy thus to outline a few external characteristics of the seminary, but difficult to picture its inner life. ”
- Herbert Baxter Adams- Copy
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“ A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
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“ College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? ”
- David Wood- Copy
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