Eventually finishing his doctoral thesis, Foucault initially hoped that it would be accepted by Uppsala University, but Stirn Lindroth, a historian of science at the university, was unimpressed by his work, asserting that it was full of speculative generalisations and was a poor work of history.

He went on to The King's School, Canterbury, where he was unimpressed with the standard of teaching and foresaw that he was unlikely to achieve a scholarship to university.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

It differed from what an undergraduate receives today from any American college or university mainly in the certainty of what he was forced to learn compared with the loose and widely scattered information obtained today by most of our undergraduates.

By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.

I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.

The new century opened with Oersted beginning his professional career in charge of an apothecary shop in Copenhagen and as lecturer at the university.

During Oersted's attendance at the university, it was poorly equipped with physical apparatus for experimenting in the sciences.

Eager as he was to pursue this promising line, he was so loaded down with the management of the pharmacy and lectures in the medical and pharmaceutical faculties at the university that he could devote only Sunday afternoons to `` galvanizing ''.

Only the independent art schools, that is, those not connected with any university or college, receive severe and separate investigation before accreditation by the various regional organizations.

Compared with the college and university faculty members of the period from 1900 to 1930, the new postwar faculty members consist of more children of immigrants and more children of urban working-class fathers.

Dominated by the vicious circle of the university promotion system, the analyst looks down on and gets along poorly with the other three groups, although he cannot deny his debt to the collector.

I think for example of three women's colleges with pitifully small enrollments, clustered within a few miles of a major Catholic university, which is also co-educational.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

There are two reasons why failure to come to grips with this demand could be fatal to the future of the Catholic university.

When a man invests a block of his years at a university without gaining the coveted promotion, not only is he faced with the problem of starting over but there is also a certain depreciation in the market value of his services.

The purpose of RHA is to enhance the quality of residence hall life and provide a cohesive voice for the residents by addressing the concerns of the on-campus populations to university administrators and other campus organizations ; providing cultural, diversity, educational, and social programming ; establishing and working with individual hall councils.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

The Bohrs returned to Denmark in 1945, and Aage resumed his university education, graduating with a master's degree in 1946, with a thesis concerned with some aspects of atomic stopping problems.

Acadia University is a predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level.

In September 2006, Acadia University announced its partnership with the Wolfville Tritons Swim Club and the Acadia Masters Swim Club to form the Acadia Swim Club and return competitive swimming to the university after a 14 year hiatus.

He also empowered them to confer ( later within strict limitations ) the degree of Doctor, with all university privileges, create notaries ( later abrogated ), legitimize children so as to make them eligible to receive benefices vacated by their fathers ( now revoked ), also to ennoble three persons and to make Knights of the Order of St. Sylvester ( Militiae Aureae ), the same to enjoy and to wear the insignia of nobility.

Jarmusch's final year university project was completed in 1980 as Permanent Vacation, his first feature film.

Nor should we lose the opportunity to use this summer for training on university campuses.

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

The shield and eagle of Dalhousie's seal has been used as the logo of the university since 1987, with the present incarnation in use since 2003, which includes the tagline, " inspiring minds ".

Levels of accreditation vary: some of the institutions receive little outside oversight, and some may be fraudulent diploma mills, although in many jurisdictions, an institution may not use terms such as " university " without accreditation and authorisation, often overseen by the national government – for example, the Quality Assurance Agency in the UK.

** For instance, when a magazine claims that An MIT professor predicts that the robotic era is coming in 2050, the use of big-name " MIT " ( a world-renowned American university for the advanced research in math, science, and technology ) establishes the " strong " credibility.

However, using data from an internet survey based experiment performed in 2006 on a random sample of 574 adult university students, a study was conducted that examined public approval for the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

Though the British government financially supports the use of English in Tanzania, its usage in the Tanzanian society has diminished over the past decades: In the seventies Tanzanian university students used to speak English with each other, whereas now they almost exclusively use Swahili outside the classroom.

Even in secondary school and university classes, where officially only English should be used, it is now quite common to use a mix of Swahili and English.

The film follows a group of university students who visit a hypnotherapy institute lorded over by a sinister hypnotist who wants to use the students to experiment with the possibility of breaking the pain threshold.

Also at the university, science Professor Joe Huxley ( John Lithgow ) and students use a Geiger counter to monitor the level of nuclear fallout outside.

U-M also became the first American university to use the seminar method of study.

" The study concluded that a name change could be beneficial because the use of a place name in the title led respondents to incorrectly believe that it was a public university, and because the name " Rochester " connoted a " cold and distant outpost.

The Old Arts Building on the Fredericton campus is the oldest university building in the country that is still in regular use for school operations.

The university club teams, which are supported financially by the Student Union as well as by individual members of the teams, do not use the Varsity Reds name and thus continue the tradition of using different nicknames for each sport.

Students and staff can use their university IDs to ride UTA buses, TRAX, and FrontRunner.

In 1798, the university was abolished by the French, who had invaded Cologne in 1794, because under the new French constitution, universities were abolished all over France. The last rector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was able to preserve the university ’ s Great Seal, now once more in use.

His other notable university teachers were Christian Philipp Karl Snell ( 1806 – 1886 ) ( subjects: use of infinitesimal analysis in geometry analytical geometry of planes, analytical mechanics, optics, physical foundations of mechanics ); Hermann Karl Julius Traugott Schaeffer ( 1824 – 1900 ) ( analytical geometry, applied physics, algebraic analysis, on the telegraph and other electronic machines ); and the famous philosopher Kuno Fischer ( 1824 – 1907 ) ( Kantian and critical philosophy ).

He created a " Special Task Force for Music " ( Sonderstab Musik ) to collect the best musical instruments and scores for use in a university to be built in Hitler's home town of Linz, Austria.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university.

Using the newly created cyclotron as a mass spectrometer, Lawrence and his colleagues developed the principle behind the electromagnetic enrichment of uranium, which was put to use in the calutrons ( named after the university ) at the massive Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.