sf > wrote in
:

> On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:06:34 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> sf > wrote in
>> news >>
>> > 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.
>
> So, we're assigned to dorms and you're assigned to colleges?

I don't know what you call a dorm. What I call a dorm is a building
with rooms to sleep in. A college (in that sense of the word) is a
social organization which includes sleeping quarters for some. The
fact that I was a fellow of Peter Robinson College but that I did not
reside there should have clued you in that it isn't primarily an
arrangement for sleeping quarters.

Of course, it could be you're just being difficult :-)

(arrogance alert! arrogance alert!)

Nota bene: I'm guessing as to what could be conceived as arrogant and
may be wide of the mark (no one should ever underestimate the ability
of others to draw erroneous conclusions or misunderstand the most
innocuous statement), and so I am trying to assist those oh so tender
souls to steer clear of possibly offensive statements that I may
inadvertently make in the course of a simple yet pithy conversation.
Yeah, right! If I was really doing that, I would put the alert
BEFORE the presumably offensive statement, wouldn't I :->

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