| 单词 | university |
| 例句 | By the time Joe had stripped down to his shorts and told the doctor that he rowed crew at the university, the job was his. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For the Afrikaans universities, such a thing was unthinkable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh,” she said, “I guess he thinks we’re a demonstration—like at the university. He’s never been trick-or-treating because he was too young last year. But he knows about demonstrations.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We were required to write a research paper for Psychology and I chose it as my subject, then used the paper as an excuse to interrogate every neuroscientist and cognitive specialist at the university. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was heartening, he said, that she would go to university in Igboland since she had lived her whole life in the west. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One particular university’s “token-integrated” black Ph.D. associate professor I never will forget; he got me so mad I couldn’t see straight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent a whole day redoing the drawing on different sheets of paper, coloring it in, trimming it to size, taking it to the university copy center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was assigned here, to the country’s top university, at twelve, four years ahead of schedule. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Toby’s dad had been a graduate student at the university. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not see the letters from the universities? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She was already a Ph.D. when she arrived at the university. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knew better than Ernest that his expansion plans would outstrip the resources of the university, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Research Corporation, his customary financial backers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And some of the university men, who were unused to such a hard life, were so demoralized by the events of the last months that they seemed ready to break down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She wanted her son to do well in high school, enter a prestigious university, and get down and do some real work. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He talked often of how he could not go to university because he had to find a job to support his siblings, and how people he was cleverer than in secondary school now had doctorates. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The university was shut down and its students sent home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Professor Christie, a retired music teacher at the university who I’ve been working with for the last few years, is always looking for victims for me to play with. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not notice Odenigbo at first, standing ahead of her in line to buy a ticket outside the university theater. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The house has been rented to some American students his father has found through the university, an unmarried couple named Barbara and Steve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I yelled, “Viva los Freedom Writers!” in front of an audience of university professors at UC-Irvine’s “Pursuit of Peace” conference today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z More spots for low-income applicants might also mean fewer for the children of alumni, who make up the fundraising base for universities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had told her about Alice working on the project at the university, and I had mentioned Fay to Alice earlier— so they weren’t surprised to meet. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z People often tell me that academics have no choice but to write badly because the gatekeepers of journals and university presses insist on ponderous language as proof of one’s seriousness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hamlet had left for Germany to study at the university in Wittenberg. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “That’s exactly what I’m trying to convince Papa to do. I want to go to the university” I confess, playing this man against my own father. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her diploma was her ticket to the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the remark when I stood in a university auditorium and saw an audience of brown and black faces watching me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The teaching that these private pupils got in Galileo’s home was often very different from the official courses that Galileo was required to teach by the university. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Also I am in a different region of the university altogether from married student housing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It rises inside me, unabated by the dim pettiness of university politics or mind-numbing everyday rules. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She remembered the pro-Independence rallies at university; mass movements always made her feel empowered, the thought that for a thin slice of time all these people were united by a single possibility. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One of his guests was a university colleague, Axel Löfgren, professor of experimental theology. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Your hometown is too small. If they stay anywhere, it will be in the university.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I had two options: go on to university or seek work. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The regents went further, compelling university employees to explicitly disavow the Communist Party. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Despite the university’s liberal values, I never felt entirely comfortable there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's where the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bolles was working on his master’s degree in history, and it seemed unlikely that he would want to leave the university until he finished it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Suppose Penn did tell me she’d been to university in Chicago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “This company is the second largest taxpayer in the state of California and as such contributes very largely to the funds of the university,” he lectured Berkeley’s research dean, A. O. Leuschner. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If he was really going to attend the university, he was going to need to scrape together enough money for rent and books and tuition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dell hinted to anyone who would listen that his family had something to do with starting a university. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “All right, Charlie. Away from the lab and the university, but not alone. I don’t think we should be alone together.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z What he had expected to find at the university had been vague and beautiful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She misses him suddenly, remembering afternoons years ago when they’d first moved to this town, when he would surprise her and come home from the university in the middle of the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s genteel nickname, the Cavaliers, and its aristocratic sword-crossed coat of arms seem appropriate today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Cantab.—was not in the story either, nor was teaching at a university. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I wanted to go to the state university but we couldn’t afford it. My father had to send me to a small denominational college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The university library is my second home now. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Young black men in California are now five times as likely to go to prison as to a state university. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to work in Lagos. I want to work in the university, and I want to live with him.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When her fiance learned of yet another university closure, he had told her he could no longer wait until she graduated, since nobody knew when the university would reopen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "So," she says to me after we've reached the end of the block, "tell me about yourself. How do you know Judith? Are you in university? What are you studying? Do you have a boyfriend?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “No more than most universities, I suppose. Of course, we do specialize in one or two areas, and that brings interested scholars from quite some distance. Not only scholars either.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His goal was not to obtain a large raise for himself but to obtain explicit recognition of his lab’s importance to the university under its new administration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The president of Hampton Institute reached out to Parks, offering her a job as a hostess at the university’s faculty dining room, the Holly Tree Inn. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Our counselor—Dr. Woodchurch, let’s call him—was a soft-spoken white man who’d gone to good universities and always wore khakis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Frightful is going to be in good hands at the university, and she will have young. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom will get the visa. A university is sponsoring her,” Obiora said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In later years he would brag to us that he “went to law school” and imply that he held some kind of degree from a northern university. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Some went to colleges and universities and training schools. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied at the great German university and sailed to England and France with Horatio. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One day Venkatesh walked twenty blocks from the university to a housing project on the shore of Lake Michigan to administer his survey. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Armed with job offers from several elite universities, he informed Lawrence of his decision to resign. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the outset, he shared the university scientist’s traditional antipathy to the patent process, so redolent of commercialism and so distinctly unacademic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We train ecologists in our universities and even employ them in our governmental agencies but we seldom take their advice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I agree with that, little brother. We have to find out his last name. Maybe he's a student at the university. Maybe The Registrar can help us find out.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I should know. I used to teach it at the university.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nowadays tens of thousands of university graduates do, and many millions of people are at least familiar with the idea. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the university, teachers had shied away from topics like racial oppression, lack of opportunities for Africans, and the nest of laws and regulations that subjugate the black man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ride to the university seems endless, and it’s so dark out that I can’t even watch the scenery. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I had never thought about the university, where I would go or what I would study. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In Oregon, university fraternity brothers gathered around a radio, "spellbound” and "scared to death.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Margaret’s mother is another Ph.D.—there are always a lot of them around a university. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Storm clouds gather as we explore Paris's famous university, and a sudden downpour catches our group by surprise. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By 1939, nearly a score of physicists who had been trained on Lawrence’s machines were building cyclotrons at a dozen American universities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I want to go to the souq with Hamza again. I want to go to university. To open my own Kurdish pharmacy. But I’m afraid, Baba. I’m afraid to be a soldier.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I stayed indoors, memorizing algebraic equations, trying to live as I had before—to imagine my life at the university as disconnected from my life on Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I moved into an apartment half a mile from the university. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Chicago and its students pride themselves on the university’s intellectual rigor and demanding standards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I can remember where the buildings are, inside the Wall; we used to be able to walk freely there, when it was a university. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “In America there are excellent universities in an area they call New England. They say New York is quite fashionable,” said Joana. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Phoebe said we were visiting an old friend, at the university. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Somebody began a cheer, a formal cheer, a university cheer. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wanted to tell you the university’s going to offer correspondence classes to all the kids without school.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was far too young and too underdeveloped to row for the university, the only rowing game in town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know if Maddie thought so too; she didn’t go to a Swiss boarding school, she was at a grammar school in Manchester and she certainly never thought about going to university. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This time the university was not willing to back down. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She looks at me: “Good schooling so you can go to university.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He sat at the head of the table, drinking red wine and talking drily of French presidents whom he had met, of the French universities that had offered him jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The school was once a fancy university, but after the dead rose up, most of the students fled. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Robert dove deep into chemistry and physics in high school, graduated from Harvard University in 1925, then earned advanced degrees at top universities in Britain and Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And my family and friends all thought I was crazy for focusing so much on fencing when I had a degree from one of the nation’s top universities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I button my blouse, gather up my herbs and my album, and run back to the university. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And every day in chapel there was some announcement about qualifying for “V-12,” an officer-training program the Navy had set up in many colleges and universities. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby is smart, too, though not as academic as his older sister, a high school valedictorian and the rare Truman graduate to advance to an elite university. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She will miss the opportunity to drive, as she sometimes does on her way home from the library, to the university, past the engineering building where her husband once worked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But here, so near the university, they seemed so unreal as to be almost mythic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Six university cars had been burned down, as well. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z By researchers at a university in Australia, Dr. Strayer answered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But after what happened to her, I’m pretty disillusioned about staying at the university. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, the idea of correcting a centuries-old mistake, of pointing out that the experts in museums and universities weren’t really as expert as they’d thought they were, was irresistible. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Second, the dominant position acquired by Aristotelian natural philosophy within the medieval universities resulted in a double inhibition on experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Afterward she returned to the university every day to try to run into him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the universities and under the steeples of young nations, print culture. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The university had an interest in finding and nurturing promising “nontraditional” students, but it set very high standards as to who was sufficiently promising. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was much in demand as a speaker at student forums in Eastern universities and had appeared at many by the end of his short career as a national figure. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was simply including a map of the campus, with the university health building circled and the times that shots were available clearly listed. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our elite universities would whiten overnight if affirmative action suddenly disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I went with him to college and university lectures, to radio and television stations for his broadcasts, and to public appearances in a variety of situations and locations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In March 2009, he left WHO and Harvard to become the seventeenth president of Dartmouth—the first Asian American president of any Ivy League university. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Alicia, who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z A handful of young student doctors from a white university ran around all day trying to treat the endless number of black patients. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I was majoring in hustling, something no university would give me a degree for. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her mother said comfortable with a faint shudder, and Olanna almost smiled because her mother had Odenigbo’s basic university house in mind, with its sturdy rooms and plain furniture and uncarpeted floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He started his campaign auspiciously enough with an overture to James Conant, who visited Berkeley in May to deliver the keynote address at Charter Day, the university’s annual founding celebration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z More brochures, application forms and letters from tennis coaches from various American universities continued to come. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom told me this was the first place at the university where women students could hang out. Anyway,” Calder said, “let’s keep going.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Hans and Sophie carried the suitcase into the atrium of the university’s main hall. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “If there were black tennis universities I would stay.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch are the only significant exception: in the United Provinces the universities were teaching Cartesian philosophy by the late seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So not everyone from the university was deported. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But Glenn was able to take advantage of the superb state university system of California, where tuition was free to residents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It is of the English. I so heard our lord of the land tell his young son who was setting out for the great university of Heidelberg long ago.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A complex of white buildings, like a museum or a university, nestled in a grove of pines to the left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was considered “the most expensive, most beautiful, and largest high school in the nation” and an excellent educational facility and academically graduated a high percentage of students who went on to top universities. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For the summer of 1919, he found himself a laborer’s job in Vermillion, South Dakota, the seat of the state university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “They don’t want us to go on to university because they know we’ll carry on the struggle there.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had filled out, from the slight boy of their university days to a fleshier, more muscled man, and perhaps because he had filled out, he seemed shorter than she remembered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Siberian city had several huge public buildings, monuments from World War II, a reputable university and medical school, and some factories that provided decent jobs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As it happens, this is the first occasion since the establishment of universities in the thirteenth century on which a philosophical theory was destroyed by a fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Days after he graduated from university, bloated with knowledge about America, he applied for a visa at the American embassy in Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They crossed the main road and walked a short distance to the university quadrangle, where bells in a stone tower chimed on the hour. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We settle back into our seats and begin the slow trek to the university. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There’s a copy shop on Broadway, near the university, where you think you can get online. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The son of Grace and Ernest Turner, the daughter of Emily and Jack Tallis, the childhood friends, the university acquaintances, in a state of expansive, tranquil joy, confronted the momentous change they had achieved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I'd like to sit down, but I'm not sure I want to plant my bare bottom on some public piece of university property. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit nibbling my fingers as the university auditorium fills with the audience, which is composed largely of men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From their habit of strolling around the campus of a great university or through the streets of the city while discussing such issues, the old school of ‘scientific’ philosophy was known as the peripatetic school. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Our university grew up partly out of necessity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Having just returned from America, I thought, he might help me contact universities over there about the possibility of a tennis scholarship. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They are invited by Colin’s older brother, who is a freshman at the university where Gogol’s father teaches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought that if my father hadn't died, he would have taught me all about insects, which was his specialty at the university. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Maybe I can get her back if I plead with the man who is in charge of the peregrines at the university. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She hoped Professor Achara had found them accommodation close to other university people so that Baby would have the right kind of children to play with. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a possibility that if I did get a scholarship to an American university I would be refused a passport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “We cannot sit back and let it happen, mba. Where else have you heard of such a thing as a sole administrator in a university?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “The university is living on past glory nowadays.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were no proper shops, no universities, no hospitals or female doctors, no clean water or electricity from the government. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The fo’c’sle hands were worlds apart from the university scientists, for instance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z One time, a group of black students took over Ford Hall on the Brandeis campus, draping it in a banner that read malcolm x university. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know that’s not what I mean. Away from the lab. Away from the university. Alone.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a professor of metaphysical philosophy at the university. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And I said, “Until I go to university.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It began on Friday, April 5, the day after King’s assassination, close to 500 students and faculty marched to university president Douglas Knight’s mansion to present him with a set of four demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For several years, the size of the fund remained concealed from university officials. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The next step in the spread of sugar came through a university that was the crossroads of all the world’s knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then one evening there was to be a concert at the university and the Rosses decided to go. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Ollie had only just started university; he was wearing new spectacles, serious and important. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You are clearly a smart boy. You must go to university, like I did. That is the only way to truly succeed.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At elite universities, classrooms are filled with women, blacks, Jews, and Latinos, groups largely excluded two generations ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After twenty-four hours of tireless work, Anthony went to the university trustees and presented $8,000 in pledges to make up the shortfall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I was pleased that the regent would now have a member of his clan with a university degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a town bus that ran on an hourly schedule between the university and the seaside. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I saw boats with fan-shaped sails floating on wide coffee-colored rivers, a barricaded university, newspaper offices burnt to the ground. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The university doesn't have a central location; its buildings are scattered through the city. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The only major university that had shown up had left halfway through the fair without explanation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z During the drafting process in the summer of 1796, Washington kept urging Hamilton to insert a separate section on the creation of a national university in the capital city now being constructed on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Soon after, I found a pamphlet for the university counseling service on my desk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nicolas went off to preach at the cafeteria in the university, where he acquired an impressive number of followers for his classes in spiritual and respiratory exercise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Birge’s goal was to wean Lawrence from Yale’s aura of prestige, which could seem overwhelming compared with that of a distant public university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then when my school closed just before the war, instead of finishing elsewhere, I went to university a bit suddenly for a term and took the train to get there too, feeling very grown-up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She talked about her work at the university lab, the research with the orchids and potential breakthroughs, and she smiled and things were good. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We teach them to read and write and love God, so they are ready for the universities at Paris or Bologna, and then for service in the courts of great men thereafter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wearing his blue Protestant suit, Lefty visited the local universities and colleges in person to inquire about the possibility of becoming a Greek instructor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Carlisle swam to France, and continued on through Europe, to the universities there. By night he studied music, science, medicine — and found his calling, his penance, in that, in saving human lives.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When ordered to “step aside and let the black students enter the university,” Wallace refused to move. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had to study hard if he expected to graduate in time to attend the university in the fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the nation’s leading astronomers, Campbell had been director of the university’s Lick Observatory for twenty-three years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They and the university still formed some center to his universe, but only as a point of origin; he hardly ever saw anyone anymore. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I climb to my feet and we make our way the few remaining blocks to the university in silence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Conant figured that recruiting Lawrence would eliminate with one stroke the two universities’ disparity in experimental physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The university offered the kind of institutional stability that a still-newish nonprofit could not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the wealthy and influential personages of Northern California, many of whom had been educated at Berkeley and supported the university generously, began to eye a new, high-profile candidate for their philanthropy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a university apartment located on the fringes of the campus. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The major chemical companies are pouring money into the universities to support research on insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “When I heard of my father’s death, I was traveling to the university in Padua, where thousands come to study with the masters of medicine, to dissect every part of man and discover his secrets.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had come out of a German university tradition that believed in dueling. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the seventies, as more and more Americans spoke out against affirmative action, university presidents were forced to take the defense. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had transferred from the university secondary school in Nsukka, and only days after, everyone knew of the swirling rumors about his mother. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I replied that there were no “tennis universities.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I go to the reception afterward, which offers the usual university fare: bad sherry, thick tea, cookies out of a package. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A university degree, I believed, was a passport not only to community leadership but to financial success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt that it was time to go, to declare myself a graduate of The Mecca, if not the university. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Half the fathers of the A group had a college degree or beyond, and this at a time when a university education was a rarity. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I kept going and going and now I’m at university and not dead in a ditch somewhere and that is how he saved my life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I can’t suffer looking at the university’s gleaming glass administration building—all clean lines and razor-sharp edges that cut to the bone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I needed the loan....I told him it’s so I can finish my degree at the university.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He said he liked working there because when he got off he could go to the university and spend some time in the library. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z But again, he might be too pressed with invitations from his university mates to find time for a visit with a sister who was only an old spinster and a factory girl to boot. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The university was closed down until further notice as a result of the damage to university property and the atmosphere of unrest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Said he was from the university. He gave me this. Said you should look him up when you get to the U. That he might be able to use a fellow like you.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z What American university would bother to give a scholarship to such a loser? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as though I could not tell, he added, “It’s the university’s motto.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe when we are in the university you will join me in agitating for optional celibacy in the priesthood?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In those days it was not difficult to get into either of these great universities so long as you could pay. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Once high school was finished, my parents insisted that I go to the States for college — and given the state of the universities in Congo, I agreed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This means pharmaceutical companies, scientists, and universities control what research can be done on those genes, and how much resulting therapies and diagnostic tests will cost. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, his calculations were effectively held up for a year while he waited for the university to provide him with a simple adding machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I mean, there aren’t that many major universities here, and the big ones kinda dominate it all.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Except for my sons, of course. They call every night from the university to talk to me.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She wanted me to hang out with my cousin at his university. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had decided to accept a position at a faraway state university. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of money, he took a temporary position at the Swiss patent office, a far cry from the assistantship at a university that he wanted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Francie wondered, if it was so good, why he hadn’t matriculated there instead of at the university of another midwestern state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The university was then almost as much of a physics backwater as Berkeley had been when Lawrence first set foot on its campus, especially in comparison to its Cambridge neighbor, MIT. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z More like a young man who spent all his time in the library of the university, or the private archives of the local magistrate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Also the only thing I can afford: I have won a scholarship to university, which was no more than expected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Unless she passes whatever subjects she failed, at the next set of exams or sometime or other, she’ll be locked out of university forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Despite Lawrence’s reputation for personal integrity, an unaudited private fund controlled by a faculty member eventually made university accountants uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You didn’t take her to the university, did you? She’s dead, isn’t she?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the newspapers, university lecturers listed their complaints, the agreements that were trampled in the dust by government men whose own children were schooling abroad. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She commuted two hours a day, three days a week, to her first year of university classes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Neither my mother nor my father had finished secondary school, so university seemed out of the question. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As I later discovered, they had nearly chosen a different facility because the authorities feared I might attract sympathetic attention at a university hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Either way, most of the students in that university survived, while the one where we go to school became a bit of a slaughterhouse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z That fall, I packed my bags and left for Houghton College, a Christian university not far from home in New York. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She said she had to concentrate on doing her best because she was one of the first of our women given permission to register for classes in that white university. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z P. D. took me to Dillard University, one of the two Negro universities in New Orleans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Had no idea Benjamin Franklin had invented all that stuff—a stove, glasses of some kind, the first post office, and his own university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z No one seemed to care about another student strike, and people walked past the tanks without stopping to read the placards hanging from the university facade. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I publicly scorned the university presidents’ call for a nonwhite leadership class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most of the Ivy League universities, Brown was founded by Protestant ministers as an expressly Christian college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And he had not really contemplated going to the university before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I was ten years old, and was not surprised that my parents, who were from India, and had a number of Indian acquaintances at the university, should ask Mr. Pirzada to share our meals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z For much of his fifteen years as Virginia’s president, Casteen has focused on raising money and expanding the university, the most prestigious in the state. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My school shut down just before the War began, when most of the English and French pupils were pulled out, which is why I went off to university a bit early. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He had left right after secondary school to attend university in Indiana and had graduated years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And she had created a record of study, just as scholars did at universities. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mother and Father had always wanted me to go to university. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Last Saturday, I chaperoned a dance at the university and Rufino spent the entire evening talking with me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They were prevented from even applying to many colleges and universities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t be allowed to enter even a black South African university with that, so how could I hope to enter an American one if I was to be awarded a tennis scholarship? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls at university, in their cashmere and pearls, make jokes about arty beatniks and talk to me less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Several of them held university degrees, which was extremely rare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out he has played on several university teams. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a boy just turning seventeen, she maintained, the important thing was to keep him sequestered from “the wickedness of the state university.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He also said that he would be willing to take the tape to a commercial lab, but he knew that the work done at the university was much better. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s silly, but since I belong at the lab I feel as if I’m a part of the university. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I wanted university presidents to encourage students to work to improve the condition of disadvantaged Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In university, when they finally stopped simulating, she began to call him Ceiling, in a playful way, in a suggestive way—but when they fought or when she retreated into moodiness, she called him Obinze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Barack had moved from an adjunct position to a senior lecturer at the law school, which gave us a tuition break at the university’s Lab School, where Malia was soon to start preschool. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And it doesn’t have to be in London because I don’t like London and there are universities in lots of places and not all of them are in big cities. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Should public universities license discoveries funded with taxpayer dollars so that private corporations could sell them for profit to those same taxpayers? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This friend, Jim Hunter, was an English professor in a small university about two hundred and fifty miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose these smart pills might put a few of our top colleges and universities out of business.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “Two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We owe to him indispensable phrases which encapsulate powerful arguments, such as ‘unintended consequence’ and ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’; one of his phrases, ‘role model’, has moved out of the university into daily speech. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My cell has assigned me, along with Sonia, also a university student, to this apartment above a little comer store. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose that your teenage daughter found out that she had been accepted at two universities — Harvard University and Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Paul Coughlin, president of the alumni association, started placing calls to some of the university’s more prominent graduates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Within months, the deuteron fiasco would be forgotten, and universities across the nation and in Europe and Asia would be clamoring for their own machines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Additionally, the lab would be recognized as a division of the university, independent of the Physics Department, with Lawrence as director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like universities across the country, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh holds its spring commencement in May. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Danny received letters of acceptance from each of the three universities to which he had applied. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Do you remember me? I’m Ana Diaz. We went to the university together. Don’t you recognize me?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I might be three years younger, but he's the one who is tucked away in a university. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Ernest recognized that the rapidly rising stature of the Rad Lab in worldwide physics was based partially on its generosity to other universities seeking advice, manpower, and radioactive products. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Spraying for Dutch elm disease began in a small way on the university campus in 1954. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was fitting, then, that when he entered the university, he made his place in the college of alchemy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z George Toley’s letter read: Dear Mark, Stan told me about you and your intention to obtain a tennis scholarship to an American university. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did they fear that New York City could be vulnerable to an attack launched from Europe, but also the university’s resources were already stretched thin by Urey’s gaseous diffusion research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A few made matters worse by offering more: an unusually large starting salary; a reduced teaching schedule; free university housing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When it started to get dark, most people left to catch the fireworks display at the university or to see a band called Oswald Five-0 play in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer were the university’s resources, parceled out at a few hundred dollars at a time, sufficient for his purposes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Similar scenes were taking place at top universities all over the country. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he left for the university he would leave a cup of tea by the side of the bed, where she lay listless and silent. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The chance to try to lower those walls, to get more students involved with the city and more city residents with the university, was one I found inspiring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But some old literature professor from the university had died and bequeathed his Hamburg to our school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I love books and I wanna be around ’em all day, even if it’s in some dingy basement at a stuffy old university on the Upper West Side.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I saw Malcolm X too many times exhilarated in after-lecture give-and-take with predominantly white student bodies at colleges and universities to ever believe that he nurtured at his core any blanket white-hatied. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When the time came, I applied to American universities to take my degree. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z "That is good to know, Didu. But I'm trying to focus on surviving my first day of secondary school before aiming for university." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Moira told me once that it used to be where the undergraduates ate, in the earlier days of the university. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they were matter of fact, but from the university, ninety miles away, he made passionate love to her, shut himself off from the life around him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "We could go to any of the universities in England or France." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “A governing council votes for a vice chancellor. That is the way it has worked since this university was built, that is the way it is supposed to work, oburia?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It will have to find new ways for relating to the universities, if its graduate programs are to expand as they should. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The board duly passed it on to Robert G. Sproul, who had been inaugurated as the university’s president only three months earlier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The old man in front of him wore the robes of a university medik. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I never heard of tennis universities,” he said icily. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z No flagship state university has a smaller proportion of low-income students than Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Several professorships of “race biology” and racial hygiene were established at German universities, and racial science was routinely taught at medical school. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After spending half the day at National, we went to visit a small private college and a big university so we could experience how different they were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead of being a forest-insect field researcher, he is now a university professor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hi, Melody. I’m glad to meet you. My name is Catherine. I go to the university, and I’m gonna be your deals and wheels every day.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In fact the British boys still rowed with the long layback that English prep schools and universities had taught for generations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like his misguided obsession with those Potomac canals, his campaign for a national university in the capital city never bore fruit. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She had plans to send him off to the university in Austin fifty miles away when he turned eighteen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Meredith, who had integrated that state’s university system in 1962, launched a solo 220-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to the Magnolia State’s capitol in Jackson on June 5. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They had streamed across from the south bank—mostly university students, as well as their masters. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It has, to be sure, linkages of various kinds, arrangements with outside universities for certain graduate programs, and it adheres delicately, somewhat ambiguously, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute just up the street. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I should prepare, try to acquire the high school education Tyler had told the university I had. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I know the son teaches at the university.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In early 1949 Jack Tenney, who had staged the earlier hearing into Rad Lab security, resurfaced with a package of thirteen bills targeting suspected communists at the university and elsewhere in state government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He tries his father’s department at the university, but there too the phone rings and rings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Totally brave. But then a janitor at their university turned them in, and they were both executed. Some of the others were, too. By guillotine.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Back in Tehran, my mom was only nineteen and had spent the last year begging her overbearing father to send her to university in London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The university cost more than $30,000 a year; he couldn’t imagine how he would get around that. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I think we just need to make sure they don't forget, but don't expect miracles either.... both stubborn people, Jesse and I had each called the university a half dozen time's, but gotten no response. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My name would be heralded far and wide; the governor would shake my hand; the university would award me a diploma. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Looking out the train windows, we could see the university’s Gothic spires. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined that they all had university degrees, that they worked in office buildings, behind desks of their own, where they typed and smoked and made important telephone calls to important people. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z What was worse, it was possible to get a university degree in biology without learning any genetics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Later, he was given a scholarship to universities in Indiana and Tennessee, where he earned a degree in medicine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “The university is no place for a woman these days.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The regents’ breath was taken away by Lawrence’s audacious request for funds at a time when the stock market crash still weighed on the university endowment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Once he got into the university environment, I thought he would prosper, I really did,” his brother Mark says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Hundreds of American universities, colleges, and high schools shut down for the week as students staged impassioned protests. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They had been together for most of university and when you saw them, you saw why they were together. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He tracks me down at the university, rumpled and unshaven and suddenly too old, and pleads with me as I walk between classes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I had thought of going to the famous university there, but Mum could not afford to send me unless I won a major scholarship. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That term, I presented myself to the university like resin to a sculptor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The school, unlike the nursery school, is several miles from the house, several miles from the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lara, mv best friend since university, had two children in two years: a boy first and then a girl. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Private tutors from the university, and that’s what this kid comes up with? ’We were ambushed’?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Apart from the Imperial Palace, the university, and the Ras Hotel, where we stayed, there were few structures that could compare with even the least impressive buildings of Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In several years, I’d get my chance to work for the university and reckon with some of these community-relations problems directly, but right now Art was just kindly offering to pass around my résumé. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But behind my eyes my mind reared—spooked and turning—then broke toward a reckless idea: Leave the university. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I graduate from university, and discover that there’s nothing much I can do with my degree. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was thus an easy step, in my last undergraduate year at university, to shift from my initial goal of medicine to the goal of biological research. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The people of the area, many of whom had some connection with the university, could trace their ancestors to every continent, and just about every country in the world. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My father expected me to attend an Ivy League university, where I'd make straight A's, play football, and spend my off-hours strumming guitar with the student jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Even as I was receiving my degree, I realized that hardly anything I had learned at university seemed relevant in my new environment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the museum I'd done a piece at a gallery and had another scheduled for the state university. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But in the universities, as opposed to the schoolrooms, humanist scholarship was not the central concern. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A variety of classes was taught there by instructors who came from such places as Harvard and Boston universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he is now a tenured full professor, he stops wearing jackets and ties to the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally they allow him to make a phone call, and his graduate supervisor from the university has to come and bail him out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The university is a delightful place; lots of room in the classes and residences, no crowding in the cafeteria, and the professors are solicitous. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Aside from the formal curriculum at the university, we would spend our time learning the language, learning the country, and learning more about ourselves than we ever imagined. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I could not see myself going to any of the inferior tribal universities run by white apartheid ideologues; it would simply mean more intellectual stunting, anger, frustration and hatred. mentality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally my mother points out a sign on the side of the road that says university house, 2 miles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z After his years at the university, the man I killed returned with his new wife to the village of My Khe, where he enlisted as a common rifleman with the 48th Vietcong Battalion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z What she did tell her babcia: that she had applied and been accepted to an exchange program with an American university. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z As education minister, he had attempted to keep black students out of white universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My various jobs—from city hall to Public Allies to the university—had helped me see how hard it could be for some people to secure things like basic health care and housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, some of the blame for that lies, I think, with schools of education in colleges and universities which place little or no emphasis on mathematics in their teacher-training courses. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there are great universities that do not concern themselves with how many Jewish students they have. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z J. T. thought Venkatesh was crazy, literally—a university student wanting to cozy up to a crack gang? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Founded in 1931, the university had once been the finest in Asia, the intellectual heart of the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Why do we need scientists to make us important? I go to school with their kids, and they’re all snobs and dweebs. Whoever heard of their stupid university anyway?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I will see most of you later this evening for the lecture at the university. Please make sure you wear your Sunday best for this fine event.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z University College London, which was known as the godless university, where great men were thinking great thoughts—but were not being trained, as at Cambridge and Oxford, for the church. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is not a good person for you to know. He and the others have turned the campus into a propaganda camp. In fact, I’m thinking of closing down the university.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My aunt Anne in her nurse's uniform, my aunt Ada in her university sweater Buckeye to the hone . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He came under the influence of a Maskil in Odessa and went away to France where he became a great mathematician and taught in a university. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Not long after he graduated, the university was closed temporarily and its scholars dispersed to avoid the plague. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z From a postcard rack near the cash register, he picked out two cards of a polar bear, on which he sent his final messages to Wayne Westerberg and Jan Burres from the university post office. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a long letter from a former graduate student who wrote about her life after the university. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We discussed our family, and what a shame it was that our book-loving oldest brother Wilfred had never had the chance to go to some of those big universities where he would have gone far. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z From 1871, when he joined the university as a professor, to his death in 1903, his courses attracted an average of slightly over one student a semester. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He has graduate degrees from a prestigious university. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My mother returned when she was eighteen, to attend college at the state university in Gainesville. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Why can’t the Americans see the Communists in their own backyards, in their universities, bending the malleable minds of the young? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Going back to Berkeley, however, I returned to a campus where I was still officially designated a minority— still considered by university officials to be in touch with my native culture. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year they do one play by Shakespeare; it’s always the play that’s on the provincewide Grade Thirteen Examinations, the ones you have to pass in order to get into university. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think maybe I want to go to the university.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My English teacher, a tall, wiry fellow with a Ph.D. from one of the black universities, gave us The Merchant of Venice for a reading assignment. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He has always hoped to teach in a university rather than work for a corporation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That January I would begin Form Three, which meant I had two more years before I could go on for my A-levels, the last two years before university. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Berrange showed that Ngubase had forged certificates for a university degree, had practiced law illegally for several years, and had a further case of fraud pending against him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another challenge to the Rad Lab’s domination of government patronage came from a new university lab under development at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Snow was falling, magically softening and erasing the university world beneath it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z After winning a prestigious scholarship, Houseman seemed destined to attend a British university. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements and I assumed as a matter of course that Sisulu was a university graduate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As Venkatesh would later tell his university colleagues, he realized that the multiple-choice answers A through E were insufficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At almost every college and university in the country there are Muslim student groups. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the meantime, Sproul was able to push the regents to commit themselves as a board to more funding from university resources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the night of May 10, 1933, in many German cities, university students and Storm Troopers carried flaming torches and marched behind trucks and oxcarts filled with banned books. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of them had just graduated from a city university and couldn’t rock the boat. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z His three daughters were among the first women in Japan to receive university degrees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z College and university administrators could proudly claim that their institutions had yielded, were open to minority groups. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a large-scale one, then drew a connecting line between his own small township and the university town where the Hunters lived, marking down the place names through which it passed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby reluctantly agreed, and he was driven from Bled in Slovenia to Banja Luka in Bosnia for treatment at a large university hospital. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He cussed so loudly, so frequently, and so colorfully that offended lakeside residents soon began complaining to the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He took the list to the university president, and the situation was diffused. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson had already put in his application for the university in the fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While working at the law firm brought me into regular contact with whites for the first time, the university introduced me to a group of whites my own age. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Au pairs frequently work for university families because they are encouraged to take educational courses during their exchange year. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Congratulations,” said the president of the university, loudly, again. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Pat yourself on the back because you'll get instant access to six years of high school and then four at the top universities in the Republic: Drake, Stanford, and Brenan. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Then he’d spent five brutal months fishing for salmon on the Bering Sea, up in Alaska, to put together enough money to start at the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The university will be more inclined to reward by pay or promotion him who makes some addition to knowledge of an immediately profitable kind rather than him who works for knowledge itself,” he said. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And I said, “Until I go to university.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z American universities, already beginning to enjoy the fruits of collaboration with big business, duly put this relationship to work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Wab was still bitter as she stood, brushing the grass off the back of her faded sweatpants, the initials of a university she’d never attended stamped across the seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But that day, Mate read right out how there had been a demonstration at the university, led by a bunch of young professors, all members of the Communist party. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The apparatus would cost $700, according to the estimate he submitted to the university’s board of research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By 1959, in spite of six years’ spraying, the university campus had lost 86 per cent of its elms, half of them victims of Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “All right, ladies, let's make our way down to the university. We don't want to be late for the lecture.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “The great colleges and universities were designed to provide for mobility, to seek out talent,” said Anthony W. Marx, president of Amherst College. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And then, when I’ve done that, I am going to go to university in another town. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Kashmiri pencil cups are bought for Ashoke to give to his colleagues at the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Passing the university exams and then studying hard to go until the end, the farthest of all that we can go in school. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In 1574, Tycho spent part of his time in observing, but most of the year in Copenhagen, where, at the behest of the King, he gave a series of lectures at the university. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The buyers are an American family, the Walkers, a young professor new to the university where her husband used to work, and a wife and daughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But if Mother thought Harry courting Fern was a good idea, what did this mean about her ambitions for him to go to the university? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They played golf together and went out often—to movies, to the theater occasionally, to triple-A baseball games, and to the state university football games. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I heard this story, I made the only good decision I had made for months: I enrolled in the university counseling service. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Out of love for Miguel, and not for any ideological conviction, Alba sat in at the university along with the students who had seized a building in support of a strike by workers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We had our own little plot cooked up to present to his father—the day before university classes started. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In schools and universities, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the study of rhetoric pushed aside. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z His past failure to gain admission to both universities—the denial of his “right beginning”—had haunted him throughout his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the bottom I want to sprint for the bus, but I say, "So, are you at the university?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he had little trouble getting As in classes he liked, he had a C+ average and his ACT test scores were below the mean at the university. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education decision, the university refused Meredith’s enrollment, and Governor Ross Barnett tried to block his admission. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the university officials who so diligently took note of those students in their self-serving totals of entering minority students finally took no note of them when they left. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Another lab director might have been inclined to fend off poachers from rival universities; Lawrence welcomed them, or at least refused to stand in their way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “In my case, it means going to university.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On her twenty-first birthday in May, Sophie said goodbye to her parents and boarded a train for Munich, where she would finally join Hans at the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d sacrificed a social life, free time, and my summers to make myself a well-rounded student who would be accepted into an elite university. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z About twenty-five years ago two men came to Atlanta to teach in the university system. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The university is over there—” Ben pointed down the road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We know they’re the ones who will go to university, take over the family business, run the government, run the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The university seemed to offer a new beginning, and I intended to take it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “When I went to the university, I never had one Mexican-American professor. Not one.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In 1870, he gave the university £6,300 to build an experimental lab. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nation was in his last year, Form Four—he wanted to finish up and then focus on a soccer career instead of trying for university. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z If you are stumped by the final question, it might help to know that Coaching Principles was taught by Jim Harrick Jr., an assistant coach with the university’s basketball team. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Some attended community colleges, while others went to major universities in states that stretched all the way from Massachusetts to Hawaii. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I knew she was one of only a few of our people allowed to attend that university. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Plus, my mom teaches at the university, so the tuition is cheap. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many students who demanded that the university be ‘shut down’ were careful to check with instructors to be certain they would get course credit at the end of the quarter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he comes home from the university the first thing he does is hang up his shirt and trousers, donning a pair of drawstring pajamas and a pullover if it’s cold. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I had no real idea what you did at the university—I was making it up as I went along—but I didn’t want her to know that. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “We have twenty-two universities and colleges with over two hundred thousand students in Dalian,” he explained. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “That’s right, sir. There’s scholars from the university come here, and watermen from all over.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lawrence acknowledged that the cost of the new cyclotron “could hardly be absorbed in the general university budget” and promised to help raise the necessary funds. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But in its time, it was an exceptional university. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The department had approved his tenure, the College of Engineering had approved it, the university had approved it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Richie took his car to university, so we have more room in our driveway now! I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Ollie asks me about my job, and I ask him about his studies, and he says he's moved out of his parents' home to live with a roommate closer to the university. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You are so clever. Keep your grades up and go on to your A-levels so you can go to university like we did. Then you can do whatever you want.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They occupied the secondary schools and university campuses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z What a sense of accomplishment it gives him to see his name printed under “Faculty” in the university directory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Abby received her degree and moved off to another university, while Mrs. Linden was, in the end, fired when Eliot’s mother discovered that Mrs. Linden’s thermos contained more whiskey than coffee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Being the registrar at the university, he has to know a lot about people coming from England and other places. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Father went to university there to get his P...PH...PH something.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The University of the Witwatersrand, known to all as “Wits,” is located in Braamfontein in north-central Johannesburg, and is considered by many to be the premier English-speaking university in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, just as Marshall and Melanie got back to their apartment, their dad had come in early from the university. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no point in telling her that Olanna had told him they would send him to university when he finished secondary school. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For example, a student from Yu-cai High School killed himself because he failed the university entrance examination. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Central High’s building was so tall and so stately that I thought it looked like a university as well. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My stint at the university had left me feeling worn out, putting me in a far-from-perfect juggle while also straining our finances with the expense of child care. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That evening when I came home from the university, she was still there. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In 1953, after sinking a series of experimental bores, university geologists agreed that the site was indeed anomalous and attributed the deformed rocks to some ancient, unspecified volcanic action. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While sitting on a table in the examining room, I was looked at by a young and amiable doctor who was also a professor at the university medical school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, that “anything” meant getting an acceptance letter to an Ivy League university. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z With the help of scholarships and financial aid, they’re able to attend university. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “You can’t go to university with a second-class pass, can you?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while I am able to tell him about Leon Longbridge and how he is taking Frightful to the university to be bred. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The university becomes a microcosm of the country.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She had lived in a dorm on the university campus, without four kids to take care of, and she had loved it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was not alone in this feeling and I joined a group of young men who engaged in secret evening expeditions to the university’s farmland, where we built a fire and roasted mealies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The universities had opened again but the waiting list to get in was long and Piper thought she might not qualify for entry this year. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I used to read a lot about America before I had to study so much for the university exams. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Luckily, a member of the university police was just leaving. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z When it came time to go to university, my aunt, the academic twin, won what was called a Centenary Scholarship. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the new and neutral hiding place he cut the university out, went to his classes and left as soon as he could, to live in his new-found memories. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He got a list of every high school and university in each river town, and cross-referenced everyone who had been on a swim team for the past twenty years or had registered for a triathlon. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But Drake is the Republic’s best university, and seeing as how the best are always assigned to the military, our drill room is packed with students. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And another friend of my father’s, a university president who’d been outspoken against the Taliban, was killed by two gunmen who burst into his office. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But her childhood friend and university acquaintance, Robbie Turner, was on his knees, weeding along a rugosa hedge, and she did not feel like getting into conversation with him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She wanted to live a life of the mind, and the university was her ticket to that life. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the same time, blacks were also knocking on the doors of North Carolina’s universities and colleges—as whites scurried to lock and bolt them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Quintana said the university had found them a small place. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The salary was generous enough to support a wife, and I was honored to be hired by a world-famous university, and so I obtained a sixth-preference green card, and prepared to travel farther still. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If I left university, threw over my scholarship, he would not see his way clear to putting up the cash for anything else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Calder reached down and grabbed a danger: slippery when wet sign that had been left by the door and padded it with a stack of university newspapers. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Apartment dwellers, particularly near a university, are apt to come and go. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I had attended college and university with women for years, and had had a small handful of love affairs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their friendship grew At university when Emenike lived with him in the boys’ quarters of his mother’s house, people had sometimes mistaken him for a relative. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s got a boatload of colleges writing him letters, asking him to consider their university. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Dad did know all the rules about visas and work permits and green cards, because when students and researchers come to the university from foreign countries, they need one or another of them. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After taking his leave of Stuckey on Saturday evening, McCandless spent two days and three nights in the vicinity of Fairbanks, mostly at the university. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to go to the university, Papa, please.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One time my audience is a convention of university administrators; another time high school teachers of English; another time a women’s alumnae group. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most public universities had opened admission to women or were considering the possibility. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When I was busy applying for colleges, you may have been weighing the pros and cons of going to university versus getting married right away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z So we will have to move to another town where there is a university because I don’t want to live on my own or in a house with other students. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the University of California’s first Nobel laureate—indeed, the first from any public university in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He's in his first year at university. He wants to study engineering.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Her mother asked if she wanted to join the sewing class at church, to keep her occupied, and her father said that this, the unending university strike, was why young people became armed robbers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Wallace claimed it was his state’s constitutional right, not the federal government’s right, to operate Alabama’s public schools, colleges, and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had noticed this alley before, when coming along the river towards the university—a quick glance, an almost automatic registering of possibility—and he’d seen that it was open at the other end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “When Ifediora was alive, there were times, nwunye m, when the university did not pay salaries for months. Ifediora and I had nothing, eh, yet he never raised a hand to me.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Fewer than one hundred graduated with the requirements needed to attend a California state college or university. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Dad, do you think the university would transfer you and Mom to another town?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “It was my husband who first identified the fossilized stegosaur droppings for the university.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z "Who wants to go to university for heaven's sake! All they learn there is bad habits!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how many universities there were before the dead walked, but there must have been a few. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Talking to a few students at one of the top universities in the nation? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Dad’s job is something confusing with computers and universities. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His aunty had told him a little about university women. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “No. There were six originally. The others are all in other universities. Except one, anyway, which is lost.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She had afternoon classes at the university and hurried to get there on time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “How are things generally at the university, though?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Their university escort was sitting, eyes closed, listening to her Discman, waiting for the boys to board so she could go home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Her grandfather’s sermons went out the window when Alba set eyes on Miguel one unforgettable rainy afternoon in the cafeteria of the university. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each box contained the name of a university, its address and phone number, and the name of its head football coach. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most everything else we do, education, from grade school through the highest of universities, is just a way to keep us busy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Once, the Scholar Empire was home to the finest universities and libraries in the world. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Ironically, in the universities of medieval Europe every doctor came to accept that Galen was the embodiment of medical learning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had been delivering an old print from one of the science labs to the guy with the big eyebrows, who was a publicity man working for the university. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He went off his nut from studying too much at the university. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t really have a summer break in the conventional sense because I started teaching at a university. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z About a month before the “Farce on Washington,” the New York Times reported me, according to its poll conducted on college and university campuses, as “the second most sought after’ ’ speaker at colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the lawns on the university grounds are overgrown now; the long grasses stick up like green arrows. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was a poor man with no financial resources from his family—his university studies had been paid for by a scholarship and he had to borrow money for the journey to Graz. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In order to attend university, she has to study for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exams and her A-level exams. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Further, the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s professor of mathematics was Michael Maestlin, who dutifully taught his students in public the Ptolemaic system approved by the Reformed Church. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “You have come again with your university talk, Ifeoma,” she said, mildly, and then looked away to signal that the conversation was over. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Surely some people, somewhere know what beauty is? At a university?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But nobody outside of the university’s administration, including Al Ulbrickson, was really sure what was going on. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Across the country, the upper middle class so dominates elite universities that high-income students, on average, actually get slightly more financial aid from colleges than low- income students do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Rocco is a graduate student in English literature at the university where Aaron coaches women’s soccer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fencing had gotten me all the way to an elite university, just like I had planned. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Being at that university brought opportunity for a better job and better life for us all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At the conclusion of his preparations in Fairbanks, McCandless loaded up his pack and started hiking west from the university. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain pelts the car as we drive through the university gates on Friday morning. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He passed the entrance examination for the university in 1588, then had to complete a final year at Maulbronn before he could take up his place at the university, at the age of 17. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ours is the first university in the New World. It would be such a blow to the country!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in 1985, a university press published a book by Michael Gold, a reporter from Science 85 magazine, about Walter Nelson-Rees’s campaign to stop HeLa contamination. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Only a third of one percent of Soviet women attended universities at this time, so the education level of many of Marina’s recruits was off the scale by ordinary standards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, Yacub had finished all of his nation’s colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now a few affluent evangelicals are directing their attention and money at some of the tallest citadels of the secular elite: Ivy League universities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The university’s football team had historically been a winning proposition, with an astonishing accomplishment to its credit—a record sixty-three consecutive games without a defeat between 1907 and 1917. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s almost certain that if you decide to attend Princeton, the university will pay your tuition, room and board for the length of your stay as an undergraduate, beginning in the fall of 1979. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On more than one occasion he has come home from the university to find her morose, in bed, rereading her parents’ letters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “In the south and west part of the city. The zoo is nearby, and the university too.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I will always cherish the memory of the graduation ceremony in 2011, when the university presented me with an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “You are the wife of Kostas Vilkas, provost at the university?” asked a man in a suit sitting down from us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He told me that if I succeeded, I would have to go to a university and get a degree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But for some reason that I could never understand until much later, Mr. Muhammad never really wanted me to speak at these colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first member of the staff when the university opened in 1916. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The project centered on a two-year-old girl from New Haven called Emily, whose parents — both university professors — began to notice that before their daughter went to sleep at night she talked to herself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The English-speaking universities of South Africa were great incubators of liberal values. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To house his burgeoning staff, Ernest commandeered every vacant room in LeConte Hall and, with Sproul’s permission, completely took over the university’s newest instructional building, then officially designated simply as the “New Classroom Building.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mendel had spent two years studying physics, chemistry, geology, botany, and zoology at the university in Vienna. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I think she’s frustrated with me because I could have gone to university and now I just drive a cab. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Langley managed so many courses in so many places that it often seemed like a university itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was at the top of my class in Kobani, with plans to study pharmacy in university. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad had little interest in the university, so I took him into the city. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z No bomb materialized, but that November, three bombs exploded at the university, one of them just blocks from her dormitory. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was the only person I’d met at the university who didn’t seem like a gentile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At the university, just a few miles from his back-alley boardinghouse on Invalidenstrasse, Mendel began to experience the intellectual baptism that he had so ardently sought in Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The university refused, and the samples were tied up in litigation for years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He’s nuts\\ He swears that his university professor had him locked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She came and sat between myself and the children, and her head moved back and forth between us, like a spectator at a university debate. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wallace’s plan for continued segregation in Alabama’s public schools and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I attended lectures at LSE and worked at the university library to get by. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Looking at the proportion of women in graduate school at a large university, some women filed a lawsuit claiming that they were being discriminated against by the graduate school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like a university freshman who was innocent or dumb, or both. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "I could easily have got into university. But there was no question of that." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Eventually Berkeley’s auditors would bring the fund fully into the formal regime established for all such trust funds, requiring that it be deposited in an interest-bearing bank account and designated as a university asset. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Recently, Nelson had begun talking to me about going to the university. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We both have fathers who work at the university. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginika’s parents had been talking for a while about resigning from the university and starting over in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This is Robert de Sorbonne. Besides being a great man of the church, he has founded a college for poor scholars at the university.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma rolled the car down the road that led to the university entrance gates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I did not want to fall too far behind, as being the first in the class was my only way to go to university. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As of June 2001, there were nearly twenty thousand more black men in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state’s public universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I zipped past university students busy with their weight workouts and Zumba classes in full swing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And yet Heather and her friends wanted to make me seem inferior, like somehow I wasn’t actually qualified to gain admittance into a prestigious university. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It made Professor Nicholas Green suggest he apply for the foreign research grant at Nsukka, where he could write in a university environment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At roughly the same time, the government introduced the deceptively named Extension of University Education Act, another leg of grand apartheid, which barred nonwhites from racially “open” universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a year ahead of me, and this past year, my senior year, he’d started at the university in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Professor Christie arranged for me to have a recording session at the university so I could submit a high-quality CD to Juilliard. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My sisters are there with their kids and husbands, and Tommy’s shown up with a stunning girl he’s managed to pick up at university. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z At university, he had been brilliant with electronics, he fixed CD players that were considered lost causes, and his was the first personal computer Obinze had ever seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Roza scooped her ancient flowered bag off the belt and trailed the students to a man who held a placard with the name of the university written on it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “No advantage there, Chino. Thass no secret. Anyone in El Barrio from the university of the street knows that the Italians controlled the neighborhood. They ran the numbahs, they ran the drugs.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The strike was nationwide, and all her friends were home, even Kayode was home, back on holiday from his American university. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was not one major university or college in the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He wrote and telephoned dozens of acceptances to invitations to speak, predominantly at colleges and universities—both to expound his philosophies and to earn the $150-$300 honorariums above traveling expenses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He sounded like his other self—the university registrar calling for information. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You grew up in a university, too, remember.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So when she asked him to come to the “In Case of War” seminar that the university women's association was organizing, he accepted. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Work was being done at universities all over the country, he told Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon a small group of people at Hopkins began meeting unofficially, without telling Wyche or Speed, to discuss what the university might do to honor Henrietta and the Lacks family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The university was nestled in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains, whose white massifs jutted mightily out of the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was in university, studying to become a secretary, but I didn’t want us to have to rely on the money she would be making one day. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Then there was the dinner at which he talked about Nok art with a university lecturer, a timid Yoruba woman who seemed to feel just as out of place as he did. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I can go to university, and I will meet Caitlin one day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Although he was keen to go to university, he wasn't able to pass the entrance exams. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That was a goal that could be reached, barely, if the Rockefeller Foundation, the university, and private industry all contributed; at least, he remarked later, it would be “not an entirely forlorn hope.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma prayed for the university, for the lecturers and administration, for Nigeria, and finally, she prayed that we might find peace and laughter today. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She merely preferred to go to Kavanagh s going-away lunch instead of standing in front of the university library holding a placard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I’m a university, professor with a highly developed sense of right and wrong, and I wouldn’t try to deceive you. I wouldn’t lie to anyone.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Those with broader ambitions had to somehow find their way into a private school, and from there to a university in the United States or England. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Starting around Christmas 1937, when he administered his first dose of a phosphorus radioisotope to a patient at the university medical center, John’s need for the substance became “insatiable,” Kamen recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps this latter finding should not have been so surprising: after all, Lawrence himself was still thoroughly preoccupied with his other work—namely, the construction of the 184-inch cyclotron on the hillside above the university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Andy, or maybe Sandy, was at university in Detroit, and Mia had had a big fight with her parents right before leaving about spending the night at his place. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z My mother had long ago grown weary of trying to get Daddy to finish up his university courses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he was buried at the university, which was renamed Washington and Lee University, in his honor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There is not a university in our town, which is Swindon, because it is a small place. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’ll never get to university on the education I’m getting here, but my parents don’t need to know that right now. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z My plan, insofar as I had one, was to go to university to be a computer programmer, but we couldn’t afford the tuition. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’ve never gone abroad but my father has promised that I will go for university. I wish I could just apply for my visa now instead of waiting to finish school,” Emenike said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The new law placed a limit on the number of Jews allowed to attend elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Number six was that the university happened to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The next morning, Sophie saw the word “freedom” painted over the entrance to the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather lacked the necessary classics degree; he hadn’t even graduated from university. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gasping for air, they paused for just a second, ready to hug a university policeman. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z To the east was Russell Square, and to the north was the area around the new university. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He taught English at a university, married, and had a son. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z ‘You get ones with names of universities,’ I remembered. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashoke has been hired as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “The university?” said the bald man, still wincing with pain. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Even with the cops and the university police all over, there's still plenty to worry about after sundown. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I had planned on attending an elite high school, and then one of the famous universities. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z First, I wanted to go to boarding school, then university. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I am planning to transfer to a big university in two years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a scene much like the one I had just left at the university, except here no one was studying, and some of the people wore dressing gowns. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The willingness of the two universities to share Robert Oppenheimer attested to the scarcity of qualified theoretical physicists in American academia, especially theoreticians of Oppenheimer’s distinction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It seems to me the cost of experiments coming in the category of ‘pure science’ ought to come out of the funds of the university.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Robert, this rather large oblate was expressing interest in the university.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But as he was taken up in the universities of medieval and Renaissance Europe his works became a textbook of acquired knowledge, not a project to provoke further enquiry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I remember watching the president of the university stand and weep. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This was one of her late nights taking class over at the white folks' university. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It suddenly dawns on me that I have to get up again in six hours in order to get to the university by nine o’clock. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z For Joe, the incident, brief as it was, provided a sudden and cold reminder of how precarious his position on the crew, and therefore his attendance at the university, really was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He wondered whether employers could smell his America-pining on his breath, or sense how obsessively he still looked at the websites of American universities. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of private schools and universities located on other planets inside the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z About forty minutes into the drive, I saw a sign on the roadside that read university of Nigeria, nsukka, and I asked Kevin if we were almost there. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It would be like asking a man for his university degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart stops beating every time I hear someone mention where they are going to school, or how excited they are because they have just been accepted to their first choice in universities. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Roza smiled and hugged her grandmother, believing that university was enough of an adventure. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He should have gotten a PhD; universities are institutions structured, in large part, for people with his kind of deep intellectual interests and curiosity. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The nutrients, while suitable for the comfortable environment of a university microbiology laboratory, were not designed for the arid polar wasteland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We both live on Tower Hill Road on the edge of the campus, and we both spent our nursery school and kindergarten days at the university lab school. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His thesis, “AIDS and Accusation,” won a prize and was published as a book by a university press. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As part of the vanguard of European cyclotron construction, the university soon would rival the Cavendish as the hub of nuclear science in Britain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, madam,” Granny said proudly; “this is the one I’ve been telling you about. This is the one who’ll some day go to university, like Master Clyde, and take care of me.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If I hadn't told her my name, and that my mom works for the university, if she had no way to trace me, I'd just walk away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Brainwashed by his teachers, he believed his sole aim in life was to enter a famous university and become a scientist—” “Hey!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourteen years after the incident with the Weavers, I would sit in a university classroom and listen to a professor of psychology describe something called bipolar disorder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He used to teach at the university, too, but then his family sold some patent or something, for some kind of waterproof material, and he got rich and quit. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Under the Scholars, the great buildings were libraries and universities instead of barracks and training halls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The question of what should be done with the discoveries pouring out of university laboratories was widely debated in academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In spring and summer he had gathered data in Vermont and Maine, and in autumn he moved to a university north of Boston, where we lived, to write a short book about his discoveries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The rules of the festival are clear: The professionals backstage, permanent staff of this very large university theater, are not to lend a technical hand. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Jamaica had no public high schools or universities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As the program continued, facts began to accumulate from studies made by biologists of state and federal wildlife agencies and several universities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a perfectly good music program at the university near us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Johannesburg I found that many of the most outstanding leaders had never been to university at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They said there is a list circulating, Ifeoma, of lecturers who are disloyal to the university. They said they might be fired. They said your name is on it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Electronic computers were rare jewels, their million-dollar-plus price tags affordable only by large research universities and government institutions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You would have been a fine university professor,” he said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Before leaving for the university, I decided to outfit myself in a proper suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he drives to the university, parking behind his father’s department, running along the campus roads, through the confined, picturesque universe that had been his father’s world for most of the past twenty-five years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To the south of the isle, Paris was mostly farms and university buildings. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Before Caroline left she wrote down the phone number of the library at the university, where she worked, in case there was an emergency and April needed her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He immediately assured me that as long as he was president of this university and unless I went crazy, he would back me and our work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Unlike his brothers, who had joined the army after high school, Habib had gone to the university. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He was taking a German course at Princeton now, living with his parents, both of whom taught at the university, and he was going out of his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Scotland. There’s a university there. For Dad to teach particle physics.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I was regularly speaking at universities, Muslim conferences, and different cultural organizations, in the United States and some internationally as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Because Papa works at the university,” I replied. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As I walked around the campus, this thought came to mind: How wonderful it would be to go to a university like this! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Jill would garner pledges from colleges and universities to train teachers and professors to better understand the needs of military children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As part of the university’s contribution, Sproul turned over to Lawrence a two-story wood structure on campus, just across a narrow alley from Gilbert Lewis’s chemistry building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I spent my days playing tennis at the ranch, hoping for a letter from Stan or George Toley telling me that some university in America had decided to award me a tennis scholarship. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most I can hope for is the state university.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He’s studying Astrophysics at a university in California, having finished his undergraduate degree in two years instead of four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Alba stopped practicing the cello, except to play it naked on the topaz bed, and she attended classes at the university with a hallucinated look in her eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Olivia says, don’t freak out, but when you get to Pittsburgh, the Young Feminist Alliance club of a certain university is bringing you in to talk to some students. Wait, what? Tell her yourself!” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I dialed the number I found on the university website. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She really wants me to go to an HBCU—that’s a historically Black college or university—and I have to keep reminding her I’m not even in high school yet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The young musicians in modern conservatoires, music colleges and universities study in an environment that fosters respect for and engagement with a multitude of genres and traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The job itself was very boring—I worked in the filing department of the administrative building of the university. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z This is where Michigan came in, because Michigan was one of the first universities in the world to switch over to time-sharing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The dean of the university spoke, as did the president of the chamber of commerce. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then two years later, she chained herself to the door of the university president's office. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t leading a graduate seminar at some prestigious university. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The last time I had spoken to them was when Dr. Z and Tina got married in the university chapel over Labor Day weekend last year. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The salary—$164,000 in today’s dollars—was vastly more than Washington could match, as university officials in Seattle immediately made clear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My last novel, A Season for Ashes, had been about a university professor who joins a clan of gypsies after he finds his wife in bed with one of his students. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I think of her as a silly girl who’s just fooling around at art school, too dumb to get into university, although I don’t make judgments like this about the boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her daughter, Pearl Ann, was already away at the university, and some speculated that Mrs. Larkin was less a person of means than she liked others to believe and maybe couldn’t afford to leave town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I wrote Stan a letter telling him all about the universities I had heard from. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But their argument was challenged by a man named Allan Bakke—a man of the new university, a man ambitious for his future, caught in the furious competition for professional school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At most other universities, there wouldn’t be so many student soldiers, but at Drake, almost all of us are well on our way to career assignments in the Republic’s military. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z After talking it through with both Barack and my friends, I decided to interview for the university hospital job, to at least see what it was about. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Richard did, not only because of the prospect of writing in a university but also because he would be in the southeast, in the land of Igbo-Ukwu art, the land of the magnificent roped pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were your ticket to university—without those exams, you could not go anywhere or do anything. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Might von Linden’s wife have been at university with my German tutor? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Just before his departure for Europe, the university had granted him an assistant professorship at a salary of $3,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In that conundrum would lie the deeper injury the controversy caused the university in general and the Rad Lab in particular. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While at university, Charles read theology, not just on assignment but also for pleasure. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One was the designation of the Radiation Laboratory as an independent unit of the university, to ensure the “continuity and stability of the work.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His mother enters the kitchen and prepares their meals once again; his father mows the lawn and drives the car and returns to the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t look good to prospective universities these days, apparently, accusations of bullying.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It sat along the banks of the Hudson River, and the rolling hills and lush quadrangles of its campus gave it the grand appearance of a university. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Before I went up to the university, the regent bought me my first suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The university had already had to beg and scrape every dime it could from alumni and the citizens of Seattle just to send the boys east to Poughkeepsie and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Everyone laughs. I found myself telling my colleagues at the university that I was going camping this summer.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll keep a man out here until the university can hire its own security for the dig,” the sheriff promises. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z "I'm not in university. I have a job." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Back in the fall, I’d had no doubt that she could get a scholarship to one of the city’s universities. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But still I couldn’t enter any tribal university because I had failed my mother tongue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Some of the professors here recollected him as being a scamp,” the university said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One day his father takes him to the university library, and shows him, on a shelf well beyond his reach, a row of Gogol spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One claim is that even if the university experts did not discuss painting explicitly, the painters learnt about their theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To be a doctor or a lawyer or a newspaper man, you needed to go to university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z When we walked out onto the university’s court, we were met by a packed house of students, faculty, parents, and friends clapping and screaming at higher decibels than I’d ever heard before. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The era of Big Science was now launched by a partnership of foundation, university, and industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It's part of the university, not the high school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d called Kathy Anderson, the university’s press officer, and sent her the magazine piece, asking if she could help put me in touch with the admissions people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The university, and rowing, had made him who he was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Elsa and Sinita, just starting their third year at the university, are already getting offers from the best companies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We women at this university are particularly grateful for the opportunities afforded us for higher education in this regime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nation was not planning to go to university. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Each year, the university holds a program for freshmen known as Odyssey, in which students explore social justice issues. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Nsukka is a little patch of dust in the middle of the bush, the cheapest land they could get to build the university on,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He said I should enroll in the university counseling service so that one day I might enjoy an eternal marriage to a righteous man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She wrote to her mother, “Now I am a warrior...not studying at university as you think, mummy, but getting ready for the front...mastering a fearsome weapon.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I have mentioned that one of the things that Branwell and I have always had in common is that both of our fathers work at the university. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would have liked you to become a university professor. But I think you have already decided. Am I right?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “These girls that go to university follow men around until their bodies are useless. Nobody knows if she can have children. Do you know? Does anyone know?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she would call Mr. Sen at the university. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Like many South Siders, my family maintained what was an admittedly dim and limited view of the university, even if my mom had passed a year happily working there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If it was Tommy, she’d be asking him how university’s treating him, offering him a Coke or a piece of cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z His son, Muhammad Faisal, had “met” me on American television while attending a Northern California university. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of a university professor making money from what were essentially the fruits of academic research left him uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Belo Horizonte, he joined the university faculty and founded, on the side, Brazil's first DNA-fingerprinting company, providing paternity tests for families and forensic studies for the police. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s not running away, it’s being realistic. By the time we get into university, the good professors will be fed up with all this nonsense and they will go abroad.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As the fall quarter at the university wound down, Joe headed home to Sequim to spend Christmas with Joyce and her family. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had violated any number of university regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the third BYU student ever to win a Gates scholarship, and the university was taking full advantage of the press. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In fact, there were more black men in the state’s correctional facilities that year just on drug charges than the total number of black men enrolled in undergraduate degree programs in state universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One day, as she and her friends were sitting on the grass, they were invited to join a student coalition from the university, a coalition protesting apartheid in South Africa. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma wanted me to go to a big university. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I am still living at home, which is humiliating; but why should I pay extra to live in a dormitory, when the university is in the same city? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was Canadian and taught math at the university. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I should almost be done with school and thinking about a career, or maybe even university. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He often imagined other things he could have done, or that he could still do: teach in a university, edit a newspaper, coach professional table tennis. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the case of the national university, it was the recognition that the United States was still very much a nation in the making because its population was still a people in the making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She said university women kept framed photos of their student days in Ibadan and Britain and America on their shelves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As the university owned one of the finest reference libraries in the province, Longridge often stayed with him and was, in fact, godfather to the Hunters’ nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie made it clear to everyone that it was all necessary if Rocky were to keep his football scholarship to the university. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s a year younger than me and goes to university in the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After the meeting I met an Irish girl who worked for an advertising agency, a girl who did social work, a schoolteacher, and the wife of a prominent university professor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said he worked with them in placing au pairs and nannies with lots of university families. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I work at the university in Nsukka and I am on my way there. My houseboy is there. I have to get my manuscript and some personal belongings.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was referring to the athletic rivalry between the Triangle area's two largest universities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I started for the phone, and Margaret said, “You know, Connor, kids who grow up in a university develop smart mouths before their brains can catch up.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Neylan originally opposed Sproul’s version of the oath, on the curious grounds that it would simply encourage its targets—the radicals assumed to be swarming over the university—to commit perjury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the winter of 1851, Mendel boarded the train to enroll in his classes at the university. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was the first year my mother had gone back to the university to get her doctorate. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents lived just down the road, and he had read that I was at the neighboring university in the Alumni Bulletin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I kept my head down to avoid making eye contact with the stream of sullen university students filing past me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He was traveling on the 83 Up Howrah-Ranchi Express to visit his grandparents for the holidays; they had moved from Calcutta to Jamshedpur upon his grandfather’s retirement from the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When the New York Times poll was published, I had spoken at well over fifty colleges and universities, like Brown, Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Rutgers, in the Ivy League, and others throughout the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why are they taking us? Is it really because Papa works at the university? That doesn’t make sense.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He told me quietly that he was planning to write to three universities that day—Harvard, Berkeley, and Columbia—and apply for a fellowship in psychology. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She told Eliot to put on his shoes and his jacket, and then she called Mr. Sen at the university. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Paris in the twelfth century was expanding fast, as was its university, which was beginning to shrug off its ecclesiastical roots and embrace a more secular approach to learning. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With its wide boulevards, beautiful green spaces, and nexus of universities, technical colleges, and massive software park, Dalian would stand out in Silicon Valley. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Her forays out of the apartment, while her husband is at work, are limited to the university within which they live, and to the historic district that flanks the campus on one edge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Back on Earth, universities and governments are willing to pay millions to get their hands on Mars rocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Black professionals constituted the bulk of the residents, many of them graduates of the universities that sat on its borders, Loyola College and Morgan State University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I’m going to the university in the fall with Minerva. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the world had turned upside down: I had entered a university, where I’d wandered into an auditorium and listened, eyes wide, mind buzzing, to lectures on American history. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ms. Gruwell and her students held a tournament at the university to help donate all sorts of food and medical supplies for kids in Bosnia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In my university days I visited Montreal once with some friends. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the difference if I’m at university or I’m in the hood?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In 1981, I learned that the students at the University of London had nominated me as a candidate for the honorific post of university chancellor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was Miss Adebayo, who drank brandy like Master and was nothing like Ugwu had expected a university woman to be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Runako was worth ten of you. She could have gone to university.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Outstanding people left because the atmosphere at the Radiation Laboratory. . . did not make people who dissented feel they were welcome,” observed David Saxon, the future university president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Have you seen the place where they keep the falcons at the university—the peregrine mew?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At university, where Robbie discovered that he was cleverer than many of the people he met, his liberation was complete. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the university of Southern California, Louie found himself on a campus infested with world-class track athletes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z On one previous occasion, Sproul had countered an offer from a rival university—Northwestern, in 1930—by maneuvering around faculty objections to promote Lawrence to a full professor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he could not be unaware that Lawrence’s program would once again strain the university’s resources beyond the breaking point. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The shuttle could pick me up from the student center at the university where Aaron coached, or it could pick me up from a downtown hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Take him up to the Christian Brothers, tell them I sent you, tell them he is a bright boy and ought to be going to secondary school and beyond that, university. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We talked about her overachieving older siblings at university, whom she felt she had to live up to. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z City College was free, and Michigan—then, as now, one of the top universities in the United States—was $450 a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And it was home for my mom until her parents earned enough money to bring the family to the States to fulfill my grandfather’s dream of a theology degree from an American university. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But plenty of science was already on hold while researchers, universities, and biotech companies sued one another over ownership of various cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It just occurred. I just applied to university and got in. I acted completely on faith that I could rely on my mother, without even realizing that I was relying on my mother.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Aristotle of the universities was thus not the real Aristotle but one adapted to provide an educational programme within a world where the most important discipline was taken to be theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My dad got a research job here, at the university. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Tell me again, what university are they in?” my mom asked, feigning ignorance. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was a healthy symbiotic relationship, for the Research Corporation would function as Berkeley’s patent agent, and the university would become one of the corporation’s most important beneficiaries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His own father had been one of Seattle’s most prominent pioneers, establishing a large homestead in the city’s Ravenna Park area, just north of the university. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had half an hour to kill, so I wandered through the university bookstore, then got some coffee and sat outside on a stone bench, watching the parade of undergraduates. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In search of compatriots, they used to trail their fingers, at the start of each new semester, through the columns of the university directory, circling surnames familiar to their part of the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Nothing and no one— not even the president of the United States—would thwart * James Hood left the university after only two months, wanting to avoid a breakdown. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You and your university talk. Is this what you tell your students?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Such is the life of a fifteen-year-old senior in a university meant for sixteen and up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z This one shows a huge bonfire that took place in the courtyard outside the university library in Berlin. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Even Daryn Lehoux, who thinks the Romans had everything we have, acknowledges one exception: There were no ancient universities, no scientific conferences, no journals where investigators published their results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He glanced at Mother and said, somewhat weakly, I thought, “I resolve to study hard so I can get into the university next year.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z |
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