Sentence examples for collection of colleges from inspiring English sources

We need to deal with this and the other problems endemic to our "patchwork" collection of colleges.

Perhaps his greatest legacy will be the consolidation of an unwieldy collection of colleges that, in Dr. McCormick's view, short-changed students.

According to Paul, Boston-style songwriting grew out of Boston's thriving folk scene with its dense collection of colleges, college radio stations and listening rooms.

Cornell University in upstate New York is a curious mix of the American Dream -- a large university founded in the 18th century as both a private and land-grant collection of colleges.

ATLANTA — The usual collection of college basketball coaches arrived this week for the Final Four.

With a collection of college players, the United States defeated a Soviet team, 4-3, thad had won five of the previous six Olympic gold medals.

After acknowledging the awed collection of college players, Edwards quietly slipped past a small crowd of autograph seekers and onto the bus.

The rest of the crew was a collection of college friends and young New York film people, all led, improbably, by a world-class German cinematographer who had agreed to cross the ocean to shoot our film.

The United States had won gold in 12 of the 14 previous Olympic Games it had participated in, losing only in 1972 to the Soviet Union on a controversial last-second shot, and in 1988, when the Soviets again defeated a collection of college players.

He preferred to give paintings away, enriching the collections of colleges and universities like Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr and the University of Michigan before endowing Purchase College with hundreds of works to start the Neuberger in the early 1970's.

One route would be for the new conference to become a collection of Catholic colleges and universities, adding programs like Xavier, Gonzaga and Creighton, all of which have had strong basketball programs, to its ranks.