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colleges and universities
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...colleges and universities, institutions of higher education. Universities differ from colleges in that they are...faculties, or colleges. They arose in...and as centers of study for the rediscovered...Of the earliest universities, Salerno (9th...controlled both teaching ......
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physical education and training
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......notably Germany, Sweden, and England. In the same century gymnastics...establish physical education in colleges and universities. The first department of physical...school curricula, and a number of colleges and universities offer degrees in the field. Physical...1964); D. Van Dalen, A ......
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adult education
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......different forms. Colleges and universities have instituted evening...courses; community colleges have been especially...Chicago and Columbia universities and St. John's College...demanding constant study, the stimulating...Society of Friends in England (1845) fostered...S. Knowles, A ......
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London (city, England)
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......London, capital of Great Britain, SE England, on both sides of the Thames River...and cultural centers. The Bank of England, Lloyd's, the stock exchange, and...Great Britain, and there are other universities and colleges in the city. The state-owned BBC......
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oral history
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...oral history, compilation of historical...Lewis employed oral history in their books, many...archive covering the oral history of American music was...School of Music. Oral history had become a respected discipline in many colleges and universities by the end of the 20th...associates ......
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museums of science
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......collections in local natural history and ethnology. See also...American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and...Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Although...university and college teaching museums, that specialize...American Museum of Natural History have stimulated ......
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Middle Ages
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......period in Western European history that followed the disintegration...see commune, in medieval history), their system of guilds...newly centered in burgeoning universities (see colleges and universities), which developed under......
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psychology
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......psychology, science or study of the thought processes...environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception...and biology in the study of the physiological...topics of debate.In England the empirical method...settings, including universities and colleges, primary and ......
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Johns Hopkins University
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......modeled the new school after European universities rather than American colleges, and emphasized graduate research rather...at Washington, D.C., has foreign study centers at Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing...manuscript collections and documents.See history by J. C. French (1946)....
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Auden, W. H.
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......Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile...year taught at a number of American colleges and universities. From 1956 to 1961 he was professor...Austria, and in 1971 he returned to England. He was awarded the National Medal......