Sentence examples for earliest university from inspiring English sources

On the earliest university networks, Unix buffs could "ping" colleagues at UCLA, MIT or a dozen other colleges, then initiate a "chat" session once they knew their colleagues were online.

The earliest university in Hungary, the University of Pécs, founded in 1367 by Louis I, was abolished by the Turks but was renamed Janus Pannonius University of Pécs and reopened in 1922.

The earliest universities emerged as associations of masters or students (the Latin universitas means guild or union) that were dedicated to the pursuit of higher learning.

Yet the history books say Timbuktu boasted 25,000 students in its heyday, having established one of the world's earliest universities in the 12th century.

More than 1,000 years ago, Baghdad was the centre of an outward-looking Islamic world – home to one of the earliest universities and to writers and poets whose works have survived the centuries.

But Mr. Wilder, scholars say, seems to be the first to look beyond particular campuses to take a broader look at the role of slavery in the growth of America's earliest universities, which, he argues, were more than just "innocent or passive beneficiaries" of wealth derived from the slave trade.

It also happened 100 years earlier, university historians say.

Earlier university studies had found stock-trading legislators smartly outperforming the market by 6 percent to 12 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.

Hayek was attracted to both law and psychology in his early university years, but he settled on law for his first degree in 1921.

At the same time, he ruled that an earlier university admissions policy that evaluated white and minority applicants separately, using different criteria, was unconstitutional.The US Supreme Court is likely to have the last word on both vouchers and affirmative action.

In adopting what is known as a social computing or collective intelligence model, they are extending an earlier University of Washington research effort that combined computing and human skills to create a video game about protein folding.