[HPFGU-OTChatter] colleges in universities

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Amy Z wrote:

> 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?"

In Australia, universities are called universities (or unis), and a
college is a student residence, often (but not always) run by a religious
organisation. There is no obligation to live there, though there is often
fierce (well at least moderate I suppose) rivalry between them. Quite
often students from the country will live there, especially if they were
boarders at high school. 

And sorry if someone else has already made this comment, but I've got
about 900 unread messages from the HPFGU lists atm, and I have been
reading theA movie posts. Which I still haven't seen *joins Tabouli in
protesting the delayed release of the movie in .au*.


James Andrewartha