Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive and immaculately maintained gardens.

The university's founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords was issued in November 1885.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

" The board of trustees voted in response to a three-year campaign by Penn's General Alumni Society to retroactively revise the university's founding date to appear older than Princeton University, which had been chartered in 1746.

Unlike most other University of California campuses, UCI was not named for the city it was built in ; at the time of the university's founding ( 1965 ), the current city of Irvine ( established in 1975 ) did not exist.

The Senate was the university's first governing body, created in the university's founding document, An Act to Incorporate the Western University of London, Ontario, 1878.

In 2004, with the election of Springfield native Matt Blunt to the governorship and the approaching centennial of the university's founding, new support developed for the name change.

The Policy debate program ( Holt V. Spicer Debate Forum ) began one year after the university's founding, and Craig Hall is named for the first coach ( Virginia Craig ).

Cartmell developed the university's pioneering Master's degree in Adaptation Studies and is a founding member of the British Shakespeare Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies.

CAL's formation followed a history of integrating humanities and liberal arts education which dates back to the university's founding in 1870.

It was the founding member of the university's modern collegiate system, and its non-denominationalism contrasted with contemporary colleges such as Trinity College and St. Michael's College, both of which later became part of the University of Toronto.

These dozen " founding faculty " played an important role in the university's early years and are today honored at Founders Plaza on the CSU campus.

At the university's founding in 1962, it occupied the former home of Rabindranath Tagore.

In 1856, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the university's founding, a monument was unveiled in the presence of King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Transylvania's name, meaning " across the woods " in Latin, stems from the university's founding in the heavily-forested region of western Virginia known as the Transylvania colony, which became most of Kentucky in 1792.

The initiative represented a central concern of Harding president George S. Benson, who believed that fighting socialism was a moral imperative, causing him to abandon the pacifism and political disengagement championed by founding influences James A. Harding and David Lipscomb, reversing the university's course and setting it on its current conservative political trajectory.

The university's founding date is 1840 when Rutersville College opened.

The university's founding president was Dr. Hogil Kim, who envisioned a research-oriented institution for Korea modelled after the California Institute of Technology.

The current president is Chung, Tae Soo, who has served since the university's founding.

The Merritt Administration Building, Denmark Hall, and Pratt Hall were the original buildings on the Anderson University campus, being built at the time of the university's founding in 1911.

Roy McTarnaghan was named as the university's founding president.

Two of the university's founding colleges, S. Katharine's ( 1844 ) and Notre Dame ( 1856 ) were established in the 19th century.

Founded in 1945 on what used to be a pear orchard and hop ranch, the arboretum was originally named the Charles M. Goethe Arboretum in honor of Charles Goethe ( 1875 – 1966, pronounced " geh-teh "), a land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, eugenicist and one of the university's founding fathers, " the name was changed without fanfare to University Arboretum in 2005 " because of renewed attention to Goethe's virulently racist views, praise of Nazi Germany, and advocacy for eugenics.

On September 23, 2004 the university's board of governors voted unanimously to rename the institution Breton University, however the proposed name received opposition from a number of groups in the institution and local community over the removal of the word " Cape " from the proposed new name, thus the name Cape Breton University was adopted instead.

The university's name has changed three times to reflect expansions of degree offerings.

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

The university's first president, Herbert Stoker Armstrong, held a strong belief that " although the university is accountable to the society that supports it, the university must insist on playing a leadership role in intellectual matters if it is to be worthy of the name.

The university's name is a pun on the Invisible College.

As Miami grew west, the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name.

The city owes both its name and existence to the university's location along a railroad.

In post-nominals the university's name was historically abbreviated as " St And " ( from the Latin Sancti Andreae ).

The name was taken from the Iowa State Cyclones, the nickname for the university's sports teams.

Α. Σ. Ο. Ε. Ε., ASOEE ) Though the university's official name has changed, it is still known popularly in Greek by this former acronym.

The university's original name, chosen in 1962, was the University of Kent at Canterbury, reflecting the fact that the campus straddled the boundary between the county borough of Canterbury and Kent County Council.

As a consequence of the expansion outside Canterbury the university's name was formally changed to the University of Kent on 1 April 2003.

In 1898 the university's name was changed to Pacific Lutheran Academy and Business College.

Several of the university's institutions retain the institution's traditional name, " University of Nevada ," including the alumni association, the student government, and the athletics department ( which refers to the university's teams simply as " Nevada ," a practice held since the late 19th century ).

The college's name reflects the university's early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End.

The Royal Technical Institute, Salford received royal letters, after the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George V and Queen Mary ) officiated at its opening ceremony, an event commemorated in the university's Redbrick Peel Building and which allowed ' Royal ' to be appended to name of the institute.

* University of Toronto, Canada ( an alternative name for the university's main campus to differentiate from its other two campuses )

* Northeast of the old town, the Wilhelmstraße area surrounding the street of the same name is home to larger humanities departments as well as the university's administration.

The Office of Service and Justice at Fordham University bears her name, at both of the university's campuses in the city: the one at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and its main campus in the Bronx.

The university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies ( SCS ) was established in 1965 under the name of the Department of Extramural Studies.

The university's name was abbreviated as Malaya during the pre-independence period.