Sentence examples for center of higher learning from inspiring English sources

His father had graduated from Aligarh Muslim University, the pre-eminent Islamic center of higher learning in the subcontinent.

PROFILE of former Monsignor Ivan Illich who for 7 yrs was director of a center of higher learning in Mexico.

The New Yorker, April 25 , 1970P. 40 PROFILE of former Monsignor Ivan Illich who for 7 yrs was director of a center of higher learning in Mexico.

Now, in his 77th year, the Dalai Lama still considers himself a student of Nalanda, an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar.

By Francine du Plessix Gray The New Yorker, April 25 , 1970P. 40 PROFILE of former Monsignor Ivan Illich who for 7 yrs was director of a center of higher learning in Mexico.

Although the core of the team includes three renowned deans from al-Azhar, the most prestigious Islamic center of higher learning in the world, the number of callers has forced the company to employ a team of about 10 sheiks to field questions.

Smolny has been accepted as an integral part of the university, one of the two or three most prestigious centers of higher learning in Russia.

At the London Mechanics Institutee, one of several centers of higher learning for the working class, he heard lectures on Robert Owen, the Welsh social reformer, which turned him against the British class system, just as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine, and his brother's radical views, began turning him against the Church.

This decline of faith and optimism may account for why Britain -- once the most advanced nation on earth, which gave the world parliamentary democracy and its inimitable centers of higher learning -- is today more famous for exporting reality shows like Big Brother and Project Catwalk.

It has also become a major center education center, with over 82 institutions of higher learning and 125,000 students, led by the Instituto Technologico de Monterey, considered by some Mexico's equivalent of MIT or Cal Tech.

And in an unusual move by an institution of higher learning, the center commissioned a dance by the choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his Brooklyn-based company, Evidence.