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classical college

British  

noun

  1. (in Quebec) a college offering a programme that emphasizes the classics and leads to university entrance

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New College could rebrand tomorrow as a “classics” or “classical” college without changing any of their curriculum.

From Slate

There is no classical college or university that teaches anything about the soil, not one single thing.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot claim because I am the graduate of a seminary and a classical college that God has given to me a greater perception and measure of the power of the Holy Ghost to lead sinners to repentance than to Samuel McAdoo; nor for the same reason that I and not he, am God’s minister.

From Project Gutenberg

Although Assumption is a classical college, its regular instructors are all Catholic priests and Assumptionist Fathers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Peacocke, while living at Oxford, had been well known to a large Oxford circle, but he had suddenly disappeared from that world, and it had reached the ears of only a few of his more intimate friends that he had undertaken the duties of vice-president of a classical college at Saint Louis in the State of Missouri.

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