Sentence examples for old colleges from inspiring English sources

Rich alumni may end up funding laboratories for their old departments, rather than libraries for their old colleges.

So we know that old colleges are richer, and attract posher students.Of course, there's a lot the data don't tell you.

"As we found the first set of patents in an old college, we figured that there might be similar patents in the other old colleges," Mr. Asmus said.

A 1937 book called The Night Climbers of Cambridge was full of photographs of agile young men (exclusively) climbing up drainpipes, over fences and balancing atop the spires of the old colleges.

Cambridge, on the other hand, has peaceful meadows - the "Backs" - leading down to the river with wonderful views of the old colleges, lending it a more bucolic air than "the other place", as its students sneeringly refer to Oxford.

Perhaps his new book will summon from the old colleges whose traditions still obsess him a new generation of Burkean, civic-republican leaders, more noble than "Thought Leaders" for whom "the fullest glare of attention comes just when a person is most acutely aware of his own mediocrity" and "is gravely concerned about the way everything is going to hell".

"We gave it the old college try.

Hello, my old college acquaintance.

The old college friend's younger sister?

The result of that old college election?

An old college friend urged Florida on me.