Athenaeum vs University - What's the difference?
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An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.
* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=June 3, author=Michael Miner, title=Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names. }}
A building for storing books or newspapers; a library, reading room etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Christopher Morley, title=Plum Pudding, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum ; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine. }}
Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
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As nouns the difference between athenaeum and university
is that athenaeum is an association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature while university is institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.athenaeum
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(wikipedia university)Noun
(universities)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Usage notes
* In the United States, institutions calling themselves universities are generally relatively large (compared to colleges), and offer postgraduate degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In other countries, this distinction is not made and any degree-granting institution is called a university. * In the United States, students will sometimes say that they go to "the university" or to "a university", but they are far more likely to say they are going "to college". In the UK, students go to "university", without the article. In Canada, students go "to university" (also without the article) if they are attending a school that grants bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.Synonyms
* uni * academy * institute * college * varsityHypernyms
* school * institutionDerived terms
* university of technology * technical university * technological university * varsitySee also
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