To remedy this and to restore the old established chancery style, the Pope selected out of the many then living Abbreviators seventy, and formed them into a college of prelates, and decreed that their office should be perpetual, that certain emoluments should be attached to it, and granted certain privileges to the possessors of the same.

At first, academic offerings included only today's equivalent of technical training or junior college courses ; however authorization to award bachelor's degrees was granted in 1916.

* They argue that the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor æternus concerns the permanence of the primacy of the Holy See over the universal church and condemns as heretical the propositions that the authority granted to St. Peter by Christ either was abolished after his death or devolved to the college of bishops, both positions that were argued by Orthodox theologians.

The college began as a one-room schoolhouse that also served as a church on Sundays on land that was granted to Fee by politician Cassius Clay.

With a plot of land granted by the Government as the college site, the school authority started to erect a new building at Oxford Road in Kowloon Tong.

She died in 1778 but her second husband and the son of her sister continued to resist the heirs-at-law's action until 1800 when the Court decided in favour of Sir George's will and George III granted Downing a Royal Charter, marking the official foundation of the college.

Though the 1890 Act granted cash instead of land, it granted colleges under that act the same legal standing as the 1862 Act colleges ; hence the term " land-grant college " properly applies to both groups.

Although officially non-denominational, the initial Amherst was widely seen as a religiously conservative institution with a strong connection to Calvinism, and as a result, there was considerable debate in the Massachusetts government over whether the new college should receive an official charter from the state, and a charter was not granted until February 21, 1825.

As a result of the official charter being granted four years after the official founding of the college, the Amherst seal lists a date of 1825 ( MDCCCXXV ).

The college was granted specialist science status in 2004.

The original purpose of Queen's College was to " educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences " and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church The college admitted its first students in 1771 — a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor — and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

In 1880, the college was granted a royal charter and became the Victoria University of Manchester to reflect its position in the short lived federal Victoria University.

It was granted its Royal Charter in 1880, becoming the first constituent college of the federal Victoria University.

After Blair's two-year mission to England at the request of the House of Burgesses, the government granted a charter for the college.

In 1801, the Georgia General Assembly granted of land in Jackson County for a state college.

However, given that college diploma holders are granted up to one year of advanced standing credit at any university, it is clear that this is not the case.

The area was originally part of a tract granted to Dartmouth College ; sections were sold off by the college to raise money.

In 1770, a month after Wheelock received the royal charter, the governor granted the college the township of Landaff ( east of Woodsville, New Hampshire ), but Wheelock, after viewing the land and others under consideration, decided to establish the college in Hanover.

While the Landaff case underwent litigation to resolve the rival claims, Vermont ( then meeting in Norwich ) came to the aid of the college and granted it the township of Wheelock ( northwest of St. Johnsbury ) in 1785.

The ENMU Ruidoso Campus is a two-year college or community college ( one of 18 New Mexico branches ) and an official Branch of ENMU ( this status was granted in July 2005 ).

The college arms are those of Cardinal Wolsey and were granted to him by the College of Arms on 4 August 1525.

In 1955, the college was granted the status of Permanent Private Hall within the University of Oxford and in 1995 a Royal Charter was awarded giving the institution full college status.

Legal notables who have been honorary fellows of the college include the late Sir John Smith, the pre-eminent criminal lawyer of his generation, the first solicitor to be appointed to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords, Lord Collins of Mapesbury and Sir Robert Jennings, former President of the International Court of Justice.

However, only three of them, Haseltine, Lowell, and Mason had studied at the college before dropping out in 1994 to move to Nashville, while Odmark still received an honorary degree, despite having attended university in New York.

In 1961, Glenn received an honorary LL. D from Muskingum University, the college he had attended before joining the military in World War II.

Forster was elected an honorary fellow of King's College, Cambridge in January 1946, and lived for the most part in the college, doing relatively little.

As the college later received credentials as a full university, the renamed Örebro University gave him an honorary PhD in medicine in February 2005, an award that provoked some controversy.

They are also the flower of Sigma Lambda Beta, Phi Iota Alpha, Phi Kappa Tau, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi fraternities, the national professional chemistry fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma, the national honorary fraternity for college bandmembers Kappa Kappa Psi, and of the Eta Phi Beta, Lambda Phi Chi and Alpha Chi Omega sororities.

* Elvis Presley, who frequently played the high school and college dance circuit in the Jonesboro area, became an honorary member of Tau Kappa Epsilon of Arkansas State University.

Shortly after " Killers of the Dream " was published she received an honorary degree from Howard University, a historically black college, with the declaration, " You are a dangerous revolutionist.

In addition, the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building is a concert venue named after the famous cellist who was an honorary fellow of the college.

However, twenty fellows and honorary fellow E. M. Forster signing a letter urging the college to reverse its plan and " admit that it has made a mistake "; the levelling of the floor nevertheless went ahead.

As the first collegiate organization of its type to adopt a Greek-letter name, the Phi Beta Kappa is generally considered a forerunner of modern college fraternities as well as the model for later collegiate honorary societies.

In 1953, St Thomas granted its first honorary degree to Lord Beaverbrook, a keen supporter of the college.

President Ulysses S. Grant, too, was given an honorary degree from the college in 1865.

The top honorary organization in Air Force ROTC, the Arnold Air Society, is named for him, and The George C. Marshall Foundation awards the George C. Marshall / Henry " Hap " Arnold ROTC Award annually to the top senior cadet at each college or university with an AFROTC program.

He also received an honorary degree from the college.

* L. S. Lowry: Awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1975-also studied at the technical college.

He began his affiliation with the organization in 2009, when he became the honorary league commissioner for their charitable dodgeball tournaments held on college campuses nationwide.

Transferred to Paris as almoner of the college of Henry IV, and honorary canon of Nôtre Dame, he became the close friend of Archbishop Affre and of his successor Archbishop Sibour.

Theta Alpha Phi National Theatre Honor Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, ( the national honorary fraternity and sorority for college band members ) were founded at Oklahoma State in 1919 and 1946, respectively.

He accepted the post of lecturer at the Sindh Muslim College, from where he was also awarded an honorary doctorate — honoris causa — in law by the then college President, Hassanally Rahman before establishing himself in a legal practice in Karachi.

The college awarded him an honorary master's degree so he could have the position.

Though Basnight never attended college, he received an honorary bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1996.

* Ian Paisley, Baron Bannside holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity awarded by Bob Jones University, a conservative evangelical Christian college in Greenville, South Carolina.

He was appointed an honorary fellow of his old college at Cambridge, Magdalene, in 2000, and became the first Chancellor of Roehampton University in 2005.