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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses inte

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – John Ciardi

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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi

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Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. – J. Frank Dobie

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A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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