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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to university, I was a music major. Timpani was my specialty, and voice.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
- Entrust
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.
- Broadened
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- Nov 07, 2020
After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.
- Minister
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to university.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and - partly - while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Nov 07, 2020
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied journalism at Binghamton University, even interning for NBC's longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation, I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I Got 5 on It' by Luniz, and the 'I Got 5 on It' remix was the joint that everybody was jamming constantly. And then it was also at that particular time that I became a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
- Flipped
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton is excoriating Donald Trump over Trump University? The Clinton scandal at Laureate Education, a for-profit education chain of schools and colleges operating world-wide, including the United States, is much worse.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
- Museums
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.
- Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I love the Jayhawks. But I live in L.A., so I'm a fan of the Dodgers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
- Finances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
- Gymnasium
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- Nov 07, 2020
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020