Double-click on any word and see its definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
Arguably the first western university was the Academy founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics and gymnastics.
Source: Wikipedia
Charlemagne: In the Carolingian period he created a famous academy for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help train the professionals needed to run an empire. It was a foreshadow of the rise of the University in the 11th century.
Source: Wikipedia
The Graduate (1967): directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hofmann, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross. A young man just out of college doesn't know what to do with his life. But being involved with a young woman AND her mother probably wasn't it.
Source: IMDb
1747: number of years ago (at the time of publication in 2005) that Nanjing University was founded (in 258, as Nanjing Imperial Central College; became modern college in 1902 and modern university in the early 1920s). Compare this to 1017 years for Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, founded 988 and 917 years for the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, founded 1088.
Source: Wikipedia
Mortarboard: a black hat with a square flat top, worn on formal occasions by some teachers and students at college or university, and in the past by some school teachers.
Going Away To College by Blink-182
See lyrics
University Club Truffles
See recipe
Cambridge University is an anagram of I'm receiving sturdy BA
http://www.anagramgenius.com/
Changing Places (1975) by David Lodge.
The first book in a trilogy of campus novels, and inspired by the author’s experience teaching in California, the novel centres on two academics: Englishman Phillip Swallow from the University of Rummidge in the West Midlands, and Morris Zapp, an American from the State University of Euphoria (California), and their participation in an exchange programme that sees them swap politics, lifestyles and wives. Small World (1984), the second book in the trilogy, develops Zapp and Swallow's story, while Nice Work (1988) completes the trilogy with the story of industrialist Vic Wilcox and his unlikely relationship with marxist, feminist and post-structuralist academic Dr Robyn Penrose.
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth62
Youngest Undergraduate: Michael Kearney began studying for an Associate of Science degree at Santa Rosa Junior College, California, USA, in September, 1990, at the age of six and seven months. In June 1994, he went on to become the youngest graduate, at the age of 10. He gained a Master of Science degree from Middle Tennessee State University in August 1998 - at the age of 14.
Youngest Masters Graduate: Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (b. September 9, 1987) of New Delhi, India, successfully passed his M.Sc in Physics from Patna University, at the age of 12 years, two months, and 19 days, on November 28, 1999.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
| 
