Just curious if anyone went to a school with a really cool motto. I didn't; my schools' aren't even in Latin ( :().
Michigan Technological University (undergraduate): Create the Future
Wayne State University (graduate): Industry, Intelligence, Integrity
GU's is utraque unum "both into one." :mellow:
Harvard's is veritas, which I think is the most badass thing about the school.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2016, 04:43:20 PM
GU's is utraque unum "both into one." :mellow:
What does the "Both" refer to?
Die Luft der Freiheit weht
Grandescunt Aucta Labore. Which sounds like 19th century management buzzwords.
In lumine tuo videbimus lumen, which is from Psalms I believe. Bible quotations as motto are boring.
wissen.leben - German for "knowledge/life" or "know/live" or "live knowledge"
Postera Crescam Laude - "May I grow in the esteem of future generations"
Per aspera ad astra - "Through adversity to the stars"
Knowledge is Good
Learning, Virtue, Piety
Actually mine is: Flacco Est Hic
"We're The School Up North, you fucking cow college."
Universa Universis Patavina Libertas - All the Freedom of Padua, for Everyone
Uni Padua was founded by students and teachers who left Uni Bologna in search of more academic freedom.
L.
Southwestern University: Non Quis Sed Quid - 'Not who but what' (you know) And if you really know quid you know that is just wrong.
University of Texas: Praesidium Disciplina Civitatis - Knowledge is the guardian of democracy I think. Certainly never had much of that in Texas democracy.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 05, 2016, 04:43:20 PM
GU's is utraque unum "both into one." :mellow:
Harvard's is veritas, which I think is the most badass thing about the school.
I didn't realise you went to Harvard.
University of Rhode Island - Think Big. We Do.
Quote from: Monoriu on October 05, 2016, 06:23:52 PM
I didn't realise you went to Harvard.
You've commented on it before.
Extempore Accomodare Superator
"Seriovsly, LVLZ"
I can't find anything on the official webpage, but secondary sources suggest that U of Manitoba's motto is Floreat, or Flourish.
I don't think UWyo ever got a motto. On the seal of the University is "Equality" but that is just stealing from the state.
Emitte lucem et veritatem - Send forth thyne light and thyne truth
Scientia Opus Omnium - Knowledge, the work of all. And the crest has a moose helmet, which seems super Canadian :lol:
Science and Art.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 05, 2016, 06:45:19 PM
University of Rhode Island - Think Big. We Do.
:lol: That's so URI.
Quote from: Savonarola on October 05, 2016, 04:40:57 PM
Just curious if anyone went to a school with a really cool motto. I didn't; my schools' aren't even in Latin ( :().
Michigan Technological University (undergraduate): Create the Future
Wayne State University (graduate): Industry, Intelligence, Integrity
Université Laval:
Deo favente haud pluribus impar (Avec la grâce de Dieu,
à nul autre comparable)
With the grace of God, to none compared (I guess...)
That was the first university in New France, founded by priests, for priests. It was a seminary, actually. They were teaching priests to work in New France's villages. Only after the British conquest was it enlarged to teach liberal carreers, for loyal British subjects. The French population did not have access to superior education until 1852, so it's the date generally used to celebrate the foundation of the university.
Université de Sherbrooke:
Veritatem in charitate
(La vérité dans la charité)
Truth in charityFounded in 1954. The mission was to create a French catholic university in a predominantly anglophone area so as to retain the few francos of the area that were not forced out by the loyalists. And it worked.
"Disciplina in Civitatem"
Which I'm pretty sure means "AllGoodCollegeCoachesComeFromOhioAndIfYouDon'tBevieveMeAskBearBryantAndBoSchembechler".
:)
I tried to find out, but it appears my public administration college doesn't have a motto. :D
I always found mine to be a bit disconcerting. "Eat shit and die".
Gratiae veritas naturae
The one I got my degree form doesn't have a motto (strange, since it's actually quite old, founded in the late XVth century). The one I started my studies at does have one, "Innovadora, pública e de calidade", which sounds more like a corporate motto than an educational one.
Some of these replies beg an interesting (to me) question: do all of the colleges and universities you have graduated from count as alma maters in modern parlance?
I had always been told that one has a single alma mater (one's undergraduate university or college) and that graduate schools were not alma maters. The fact that many people here are responding with multiple mottoes implies that either my understanding has been incorrect all this time, or that the meaning of alma mater has shifted to include graduate schools.
Thoughts?
Ora et labora from my school. I had to look it up, even though I'd seen it so many hundreds of times. A surprisingly monkish motto given that the school was founded in 1576.
Yes, the alma mater was supposed to be the undergraduate institution, which was understood to have nourished you the most. I am guessing the increasing number of postgraduate degrees may have shifted the understanding to all schools one has graduated from. As for this thread, I am guessing people simply wanted to expand the pool of answers in order to compare a variety of mottos.
"Sancte et Sapienter"
Translation being "With Holiness and Wisdom".
Quote from: Oexmelin on October 06, 2016, 07:46:43 AM
Yes, the alma mater was supposed to be the undergraduate institution, which was understood to have nourished you the most. I am guessing the increasing number of postgraduate degrees may have shifted the understanding to all schools one has graduated from. As for this thread, I am guessing people simply wanted to expand the pool of answers in order to compare a variety of mottos.
I learned a hell of a lot more in my masters than my bachelors.
The Alma Mater has certainly a more expansive meaning in Spanish. For example in Spanish the term "matriculación" (to enrol in a learning institution) is derived from Mater.
The idea is any place that "feeds" you with knowledge is potentially an Alma Mater. If it has been reserved for your university is because it's seen as the place that has affected you the most, and postgrad is a relatively new phenomenon (as in nowadays people attend grad school way more often than previously).
In my case, certainly, Columbia has meant more to me than my Barcelona undergrad school (which has such a lame motto than I won't even share it).
School: "Qui patitur vincit" (Who endures wins)
University: "Altiora Petamus" (Let us seek higher things)
Oops, I accidentally summoned my Patronus.
Quote from: Brazen on October 06, 2016, 09:03:19 AM
School: "Qui patitur vincit" (Who endures wins)
Rough neighborhood, eh? :lol:
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2016, 09:04:01 AM
Quote from: Brazen on October 06, 2016, 09:03:19 AM
School: "Qui patitur vincit" (Who endures wins)
Rough neighborhood, eh? :lol:
Actually, yes. It was a grammar school. The other schools used to beat the crap out of us.
My high school's motto was "We learn from you", which I always thought wasn't the best possible choice :lol:
Ole Miss's actual motto is Pro scientia et sapientia
Quote from: Scipio on October 06, 2016, 09:18:46 AM
Ole Miss's actual motto is Pro scientia et sapientia
"Towards evolving intelligence?"
U of T's is "velut arbor aevo," Latin for "as a tree through the ages." :hmm:
Nunc id Vides, Nunc ne Vides
Quote from: Agelastus on October 06, 2016, 07:49:00 AM
"Sancte et Sapienter"
Translation being "With Holiness and Wisdom".
War studies at KCL, nice.
Quote from: Gups on October 06, 2016, 07:41:55 AM
Ora et labora from my school. I had to look it up, even though I'd seen it so many hundreds of times. A surprisingly monkish motto given that the school was founded in 1576.
Heh, a friend of mine taught there, but probably after you time.
Quote from: grumbler on October 06, 2016, 07:24:30 AMThoughts?
the godawful school I went to for undergrad better not be my only alma mater
Learning and Labor
It was something really inspiring, though I could never remember what it was.
sedes sapientiae
"seat of wisdom"
Hoc diploma est Belial
This diploma is worthless
Quote from: Josephus on October 07, 2016, 09:05:04 AM
Hoc diploma est Belial
This diploma is worthless
Seems wrong to steal the University of Phoenix's motto like that.
Quote from: Valmy on October 07, 2016, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: Josephus on October 07, 2016, 09:05:04 AM
Hoc diploma est Belial
This diploma is worthless
Seems wrong to steal the University of Phoenix's motto like that.
I wouldn't goof on them too much. They have a 63,000 seat multipurpose stadium that grows its grass outside and rolls it back in. Not bad for a school with no sports program.
Quote from: mongers on October 06, 2016, 06:13:23 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 06, 2016, 07:49:00 AM
"Sancte et Sapienter"
Translation being "With Holiness and Wisdom".
War studies at KCL, nice.
History, actually; the motto's that of the whole College, not just one particular School.
Although to be honest I had to look this up when the thread started; I remember the motto of the school I attended between the ages of 11 and 18 more - "Salus in Arduis".
Quote from: Barrister on October 05, 2016, 09:47:11 PM
I can't find anything on the official webpage, but secondary sources suggest that U of Manitoba's motto is Floreat, or Flourish.
First time around I didn't think to look um my high school's motto.
It is apparently
Sicut Miles Christi, or Soldiers of Christ.
Jesuit school, dontcha know.
Sic Friatur Crustum Dulce
Quote from: Agelastus on October 07, 2016, 12:39:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 06, 2016, 06:13:23 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 06, 2016, 07:49:00 AM
"Sancte et Sapienter"
Translation being "With Holiness and Wisdom".
War studies at KCL, nice.
History, actually; the motto's that of the whole College, not just one particular School.
......
I wasn't suggesting it was, just guessing you might have done war studies there. :)
"Go here. Go anywhere."
Bruh I still live in this stupid fucking town
"An environment for excellence." :yuk:
Quote from: mongers on October 07, 2016, 07:46:38 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 07, 2016, 12:39:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 06, 2016, 06:13:23 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 06, 2016, 07:49:00 AM
"Sancte et Sapienter"
Translation being "With Holiness and Wisdom".
War studies at KCL, nice.
History, actually; the motto's that of the whole College, not just one particular School.
......
I wasn't suggesting it was, just guessing you might have done war studies there. :)
You were close, anyway; I remember doing my 10000 word dissertation on Charlemagne's military in the third year. Not to mention the elective I took in the second year was the Thirty Years War. :D
Although this thread has made me look at the current undergraduate course for King's; it seems to have changed considerably since I was there.
Compulsory courses.
"Credits".
Not to mention that a lot of the courses look much more focused than they were when I was there; rather than letting you pick and choose within a particular period what to study they seem much more thematically directed. I'd probably still pick it as a choice of college because of the reputation but I don't think I'd enjoy the course as much. :(
Not to mention the shock I got from seeing how old the guy I remember being my youngest looking professor now looks...