colleges in universities

[Amy Z]

Joshua wrote on the main list:

>Actually, in the US, we also use college as a "super-department"
>within a University, although it is also used to denote a small
>collegiate entity.

In the US, "college" is also, very rarely, the term for a separate dorm and 
entity within the undergraduate institution, as at Oxford and Cambridge; 
Yale's Berkeley or Davenport or Jonathan Edwards College correspond to 
Oxford's Balliol etc.

Yale is actually the only university I know that has this system.  Harvard 
has the same, but the entities are called houses, not colleges.  Still, at 
both universities the meaning goes beyond dormitory; people are assigned to 
a college/house their first year and remain there for their entire tenure, 
and Harvard alumni of 40 years will still get to know each other by saying 
"what house were you in?"

Amy Z

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