Washington and Lee is a small, private, liberal arts university nestled between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains in Lexington, Va. It is the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in the nation.
In 1749, Scotch-Irish pioneers who had migrated deep into the Valley of Virginia founded a small classical school called Augusta Academy, some 20 miles north of what is now Lexington. In 1776, the trustees, fired by patriotism, changed the name of the school to Liberty Hall. Four years later the school was moved to the vicinity of Lexington, where in 1782 it was chartered as Liberty Hall Academy by the Virginia legislature and empowered to grant degrees. A limestone building, erected in 1793 on the crest of a ridge overlooking Lexington, burned in 1803, though its ruins are preserved today as a symbol of the institution's honored past.
In 1796, George Washington saved the struggling Liberty Hall Academy when he gave the school its first major endowment--$20,000 worth of James River Canal stock. The trustees promptly changed the name of the school to Washington Academy as an expression of their gratitude. In a letter to the trustees, Washington responded, "To promote the Literature in this rising Empire, and to encourage the Arts, have ever been amongst the warmest wishes of my heart." The donation--one of the largest to any educational institution at that time--continues to contribute to the University's operating budget today.
General Robert E. Lee reluctantly accepted the position of president of the College in 1865. Because of his leadership of the Confederate army, Lee worried he "might draw upon the College a feeling of hostility," but also added that "I think it the duty of every citizen in the present condition of the Country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony." During his brief presidency, Lee invited Judge John White Brockenbrough to bring to the College his Lexington Law School, which he had established in 1849, encouraged development of the sciences and instituted programs in business instruction that led to the founding of the School of Commerce in 1906. He also inaugurated courses in journalism, which developed by 1925 into The School of Journalism--now the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. These courses in business and journalism were the first offered in colleges in the United States. After Lee's death in 1870, the trustees voted to change the name from Washington College to Washington and Lee University.
Once an all-male institution, Washington and Lee first admitted women to its law school in 1972. The first undergraduate women matriculated in 1985. Since then, Washington and Lee has flourished. The University now boasts a new science building, a performing arts center and an indoor tennis facility, and it continues to climb the ranking charts of U.S. News and World Report and other rating agencies. Washington and Lee is ranked 12th among the top national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News.
Washington and Lee University observed its 250th Anniversary with a year-long, national celebration during the 1998-99 academic year.
Only Princeton and Harvard have graduated more Fortune 500 CEOs. Not too shabby for a tiny liberal arts college hidden in the Shenandoah Valley.
It's hard always being the best
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Some random university, God knows where, where everyone has definitely lost their virginity... to their brother or sister.
Dude... she goes to University of Nebraska? She probably has a kid with her brother!
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Tightest school with the hottest booty. Super challenging. Everyone is too damn smart causing the rest of the schools in San Francisco to get worked up and feel inferior.
UHS, you expect anything less? Bow down to the Devils of the 415
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FSU is located in a town filled with the finest women in america, a C+ football team, and where everybody is drunk 24/7! oh yeah..we sometimes go to class too
"did florida state win today?"
"who cares we're drunk!"
"...damn she's fine!, must go to Florida State University"
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Commonly referred to as Boise Junior College or BJC, Boise State is a "University" in Boise,Idaho that has an acceptance rate on par with most community colleges. Known best for their football team, and nothing else, this joke of an education establishment has the worst 4 year graduation rate (6%) and overall graduation rate (26%) in the west. This fact does come as a shock to some considering the amount of people at their home football games. However keep in mind that very few of these bandwagon fans actually went to the "University" and only six percent of them actually graduated.
Their "Fans" (and oh so classy President Bob "The Fallopian Tube" Kustra) are often whine about getting disrespected but the fact of the matter is they need to take a page from Gonzaga University's basketball program and load their out of conference schedule with tough opponents to cancel out their sub-par conference schedule. For some reason they still haven't figured this out and continue to schedule Toledo and UC Davis while still finding time to bitch and moan. Boise then proceeds to decline game offers from Nebraska and refuse to play their in-state rival, the University of Idaho (an actual University). Truly ironic.
Example 1:
Boise Fan: OMGZ BOISE STATE'S FOOTBALL TEAM IS AMAZING SUCK IT EVERYONE ELSE. BSU SHOULD BEE N THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
Other guy: Oh, did you go to Boise State University?
Boise Fan: YEAH I WENT THERE FOR 1 YEAR BUT THEN DROPPED OUT. I REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN COLLEGE BUT IT'S REALLY EASY TO GET INTO BSU. I JUST HAD TO FILL IN A COLORING BOOK ON THE APPLICATION FORM.
Other guy: Bandwagon fag
Example 2:
Guy 1: I think I'll buy a lottery ticket, I hope I win.
Guy 2: Yeah right, you'd be more likely to meet a Boise State fan with a degree.
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THE WHITE WASHED PARTY SCHOOL of Canada. White students or white washed students go here bacause they eather didn't get into U of T or they thought U of T was was too hard. They also couldn't get into Queens they think too highly of themselves to go to any other university (like Lakehead). UWO is a wanna-be "Ivy League" school. This preppy school is home to some of the best looking over achieveing students in this polar country! Its one of the oldest and most beautiful universityes ever attracting U of T rejects since 1878.
Prep boy 1: Damm, i never got into to U of T. Well, i didn't wanna turn into a mindless robot anyways.
Prep boy 2: oh so what are u goin to do now?
Prep boy 1: Well, guess ill accept my offer to the University of Western Ontario.
Prep boy 2: Good idea, you can't go wrong with that!
Prep boy 1: Thats right, I won't become a brain washed zombie and ill be hanging out with the hottest people Ever!
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A small independent high school in San Francisco. The school is very challenging, and it is better than Urban.
Guy 1: What's that cool school in San Francisco?
Guy 2: It's University!
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