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  • I am now in the Sixty fifth Year of my Age, and having been the greater Part of my Days a Man of Pleasure, the Decay of my Faculties is a Stagnation of my Life.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • In fact, schools were founded in all localities containing Jewish communities no matter how insignificant; and it is difficult for us to obtain any idea of the number and importance of these "Faculties," scattered over the length and breadth of Northern France, which thus became a very lively centre [center sic] of Jewish studies and the chief theatre [theater sic] of the intellectual activity of the Occidental Jews.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

  • If I had carte blanche, I should cut away the technical "Faculties" of

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • * The Women's Educational Movement in Prussia, so far as it connects itself with the University of Petersburg, rests with the proposition to establish in that institution, Professorships or "Faculties" of History, of Philology and of the Natural Sciences for the benefit of Woman.

    The Woman's Advocate, Vol I, No. II. 1869

  • * The Women's Educational Movement in Prussia, so far as it connects itself with the University of Petersburg, rests with the proposition to establish in that institution, Professorships or "Faculties" of History, of Philology and of the Natural Sciences for the benefit of Woman.

    The Woman's Movement in Great Britain. 1869

  • If I had carte blanche, I should cut away the technical "Faculties" of Medicine, Law, and Theology, and set up first-class chairs in Literature, Art, Philosophy, and pure Science ” a sort of combination of Sorbonne (without Theology) and College de France.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Kant, in his 1798 work “The Conflict of the Faculties,” wrote that universities should “handle the entire content of learning by mass production, so to speak, by a division of labor, so that for every branch of the sciences there would be a public teacher or professor appointed as its trustee.”

    To Save the University We Must Destroy It « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • According to Steve Hicks, the president of the Pennsylvania based Association of State College and University Faculties APSCUF, the state-owned universities in Pennsylvania are charged with the mandated mission of providing accessible, high quality education at the lowest possible cost to students.

    Paul Stoller: Light Tea In Pennsylvania Paul Stoller 2012

  • According to Steve Hicks, the president of the Pennsylvania based Association of State College and University Faculties APSCUF, the state-owned universities in Pennsylvania are charged with the mandated mission of providing accessible, high quality education at the lowest possible cost to students.

    Paul Stoller: Light Tea In Pennsylvania Paul Stoller 2012

  • "Now we will have the type of mo dern education space designed specifically for a new type of learning environment and curriculum," says Lee Goldman, the dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine and executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences at Columbia University.

    A Facelift for Doctor's Alma Mater Shelly Banjo 2010

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