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> On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:38:13 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> Also, at Trent I was a member of
>> Peter Robinson College. There were men's colleges and women's
>> colleges. But I wa a student of Trent University nonetheless.
>
> AHA! So it's not a different system. Our nomenclature is to call
> it College, yours is University (and it sounds like a local term
> from the response of another Canadian).

Although it may seem the same to you, it isn't at all the same thing,
sorry to say. Peter Robinson College is a College WITHIN Trent
University. When one becomes a student at Trent, one is assigned to
a college depending on whether one lives on campus or off-campus. As
it happened, being as I was in a state of concubinage with my then
future wife at the time, we were living off-campus, so I was assigned
to the off-campus men's college which was Peter Robinson. It's
modelled on the British system (Arrogance alert! Arrogance alert!) of
colleges such as Magdalen College at Oxford and Trinity College at
University of Toronto. These are not educational institutions, they
are residential and social bodies within the overall framework of a
University. I guess the closest you have to these university
colleges would be fraternities (and sororities), except we don't have
the wierd three greek letter thingies (Arrogance alert! Arrogance
alert!) or pledges or hazings or any of those things.

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