- Nov 07, 2020
University Quotes
Prestige, identity, and belonging on campus.
This collection ranges widely - naming specific institutions known for producing Nobel laureates, and an old proposal for provinces to have universities while counties get simpler day schools. See Education.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
- Project
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
- Finishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York, for me, is university.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the board of trustees at Boston University. I'm on the board of trustees at Jewish Family Services.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020