Sentence examples for proper colleges from inspiring English sources

But after World War II and the passage of the GI Bill, the government looked to accreditors as a way to distinguish proper colleges from the fly-by-night diploma mills that were cropping up throughout the country to capture federal dollars from veterans' benefits.

I decided to go and get a proper college education.

In the movie an art history teacher from out West (Julia Roberts) shakes up proper Wellesley College with her iconoclastic views about how privileged young women should comport themselves in 1953.

Also in the 1950s, he began the work of converting the moribund St Catherine's Society (designed for students too poor to join a proper university college) into a full-blown Oxford foundation.

When a reporter for The New York Times asks Karen Pelletier, who teaches English at a proper New England college, to cite the best novel of the 20th century, the quick-witted scholar thumbs her nose at the establishment and names a steamy 1950's potboiler (think "Peyton Place") that shocked literary sensibilities even as it exposed "the hypocrisies of life in a smug New England college town".

We went to a proper American college party, with frat boys and all that.

Without proper accreditation, college corporations would not be able to receive the crucial federal funding.

It does not support its poor children in proper schools and colleges (and, as an indirect consequence, often ends by locking them up).

The controversy arose after Erika Christakis sent an email defending students' autonomy and questioning if it is the proper role of colleges to tell students what Halloween costumes they should wear.

Claremont McKenna College gave too much authority over reporting test scores to a single individual without proper controls, the college's president, Pamela B. Gann, said Thursday in her first interview since it was revealed that Claremont McKenna had submitted manipulated SAT data to ratings agencies for six years.

She stayed in Kobe, where she enrolled at a very proper woman's college.