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  University of Deusto - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation University of Deusto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The University of Deusto is one of the most distinguished academic institutions in Spain, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastian.
The University of Deusto first opened in 1886, having been founded because of the Basque Country's desire to have its own university and the Society of Jesus's wish to move its School of Higher Studies in La Guardia to a more central place.
The Business College of the University, founded in 1916, was the first college and the only one of its kind for nearly 50 years in Spain, which became the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in 1973.
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 List of fictional schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While real schools and universities are often prominently featured in works of fiction, this is a list of schools and universities which are entirely fictional, even though some of them are modeled after real world institutions.
Some fictional schools and universities teach subjects which are not ordinarily taught, such as witchcraft, circus arts, or even sexual behavior.
University of Winnemac - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
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 University of Edgestow - TheBestLinks.com - C.S. Lewis, Durham University, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Some critics believe it to be based on Durham University, to which it bears certain similarities.
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 University of Deseret - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation University of Deseret   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The University of Deseret was the original name of the University of Utah in the United States.
The university was disbanded during the Utah War and re-established in the 1860s.
One of the board of regents unique contributions to Americana was the formulation of the Deseret Alphabet and public schooling in the unrecognized State of Deseret and later the Utah Territory.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: That Hideous Strength   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
First it seeks to dominate Edgestow economically, then to subvert its administrative structures, then to turn it into a police state.
The story follows the N.I.C.E. as it takes control of the universities of England, the media, and the police: it is well on its way toward turning England into a totalitarian state.
The central theme of the story is a powerful warning against the dangers inherent in the union of science and the social sciences, with the political structures and powers of the state.
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 C. S. Lewis and Issac Asimov:
The manipulations of N.I.C.E. of the media concerning the events in Edgestow were a classic example of a primitive form of psychohistory being abused not for scientific observation, but N.I.C.E.'s own unscientific goals.
Lewis's fears of an iron and pavement world was expressed in N.I.C.E.'s admiration of the moon which had "purity" and "not one blade of grass, not one fibre of lichen, not one grain of dust" (Lewis, Hideous Strength 175).
Lewis once noted that science "by reducing nature to her mathematical elements substituted a mechanical for a genial or animistic concept of the universe." Basically, Lewis was implying that science was deflating aesthetic beauty to mere numbers.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/University of Edgestow
Although superficially similar to Durham University, Edgestow is a medieval foundation and in fact a third Oxbridge university.
Bracton College was keen to persuade the NICE to base itself in Edgestow, and succeeded in selling them a site including a large part of Bracton Wood - an action which attracted some controversy.
At this point, the whole of Edgestow was destroyed in a freak natural disaster, the exact nature of which remains unclear but apparently involving a colossal earthquake.
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In one of several challenges to this reductionistic epistemology he produced a dystopian novel about what might happen in a small university setting where science becomes the ultimate source of authority, and the language of value, meaning and purpose is replaced by the supposedly-neutral language of empirical reference and efficient causality.
For Aristotle, all things in the universe are arranged in a hierarchical scala naturae, or ‘ladder of nature’, beginning with inanimate matter and proceeding to plants, animals, humans, and ultimately the ‘unmoved mover’ which gives all natural objects their purposes.
Lewis’ autobiography Surprised by Joy and other sources note that Flora Hamilton Lewis was the granddaughter of a Church of Ireland bishop, and the daughter of a clergyman with whom she spent the early part of her life in Rome, where he was an Anglican chaplain.
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 List of fictional schools
Christminster University and Bibliol College (Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Christminster by Gareth Rees)
University of Edgestow (That Hideous Strength by C.
University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople (various P.
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 Info and facts on 'List of fictional schools'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Some fictional schools and universities teach subjects which are not ordinarily taught, such as witchcraft (The art of sorcery), circus (A genus of haws comprising the harriers) arts, or even sexual behavior (additional info and facts about sexual behavior).
University of Edgestow (additional info and facts about University of Edgestow) - That Hideous Strength (additional info and facts about That Hideous Strength) by C.
University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople (additional info and facts about University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople) - various P.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lord Feverstone
He is also a fellow of Bracton College at the University of Edgestow, and a leading member of the N.I.C.E. (see University of Edgestow).
He survives the destruction of the N.I.C.E. headquaters but is then caught in the destruction of Edgestow.
Feverstone's character is one that would now probably be described as that of a sociopath or psychopath, with great charm, complete self-centredness, and a lack of guilt.
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 The Chamber of Marzabul
A Proud Part of the University of Edgestow.
Note on the above: There is no University of Edgestow.
It and Bracton College, and the college's Bragdon Wood, are all taken from C. Lewis' novel That Hideous Strength.
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It's always struck me that if two universities accept only the very brightest students, and are given £50 million pounds more than the others, success is quite likely.
I went to London University, which hardly counts as a proper university at all, being a heap of colleges strewn over scores of square miles.
My college was in the centre, as it happened, and so small that there were only four girls in my year and not enough males to form a football team.
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 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 96020722
No maker of cars or sausages or marmalades has yet come to industrialise the country town which is the setting of the University, and the University itself is tiny.
The building proposed for it was one which would make a quite noticeable addition to the skyline of New York, the staff was to be enormous, and their salaries princely.
It involved the recapitulation (by Curry) of a long correspondence between the College and the Senate of the University about the proposed incorporation of the N.I.C.E. in the University of Edgestow.
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 That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy (Paperback)) by
It is, like the others, a not-very-subtle moral allegory; in fact, it is so direct that it is scarcely an allegory at all.
Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will.
A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science.
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And then, not even stars: the heat-death of the universe, utter and final flness of non-entity from which Nature knows no return.
It is much easier for Christians, or anyone, to imagine a battle such as the scene described in the beginning of this paper, however, it is just such a clear picture that Screwtape and his forces of evil want to keep out of human minds.
If spiritual warfare were to become such a universal truth, Satan's job would increase greatly.
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 Harry Potter: Real Names & Real Witches
to possess the universal medicine and elixer of life; such is the problem to be resolved, in order to accomplish the desire and realize this dream....
It is, above all, the emancipation of his will, which assures him the universal empire of Azoth, and the domain of magnetism, that is, complete power over the universal magical agent." (pgs.
The science is a real one only for those who admit and understand the philosophy and the religion; as its process will succeed only for the Adept who has attained the sovereignty of will, and so become the King of the elementary world; for the grand agent of the operation of the sun.
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 C.S. Lewis and Tolkien
In C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, the third book is called, "That Hideous Strength." In a nutshell, the book is about the redemption of Thulcandra (Earth) from the clutches of the Bent One, the Oyarsa of Thulcandra, who is supposedly Lucifer.
It’s set in a small town called Edgestow, the home of Bracton College, just after the end of WWII.
It was Tolkien who, as a professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford University, led a colleague to embrace Christ in 1929.
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 C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength: Quotations and Allusions
Jane could not go to university as she had an ageing mother to care for.
A three-part course of lectures given by C. Lewis in Newcastle-on-Tyne for the University of Durham in February 1943, and published in that same year by Oxford University Press.
British universities (like the fictitious ‘University of Edgestow’ in the present book) are traditionally loose associations of individual ‘Colleges’, with each College having its own name, governing body, staff, buildings, property and traditions.
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 Chronology
That Hideous Strength, with map of the University of Edgestow by Mary Kirkpatrick.
Essays: "Masculine and Feminine: The Shape of the Universe" by Lawrence W. Cobb;" "Fantasy in a World of Monochrome: Where C.S. Lewis Continues to Help" by W. Fred Graham, and a reply to Graham by Stuart D. Robertson, both reprinted from The Christian Century.
Reprint of Oxford University's presentation of the C.S. Lewis Centenary Stone (erected along Addison's walk).
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 Lewis 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
That he did not bear a grudge against the university is born out by his remark in the preface (written at Christmas 1943) to That Hideous Strength, whose exciting plot is set in the environs of Durham University ('Edgestow').
A very small university is imagined because that has certain conveniences for fiction, Edgestow has no resemblance save for its smallness to Durham - a university with which the only connection I have had was entirely pleasant.
Though I am Oxford-bred and very fond of Cambridge, I think that Edgestow is more beautiful then either.
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 Index of /wiki/en/un/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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 EtymologicalExcursionAmongDGs
Edgestow (Phoenix, Arizona): In That Hideous Strength, the university town
Earthsea, the island on which the school for wizards is located.
alludes to Baton Rouge being a university town in a water-logged region.
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 Author : works by Gordon Korman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
While real schools and universities often prominently feature in works of fiction, this is a list of schools and universities which are entirely fictional, even though some of them are modeled after real world institutions.Relying on a fictional setting allows the authors to exaggeratecertain aspects of school life for humorous or dramatic effect.
Please only link schools if they are likely to deserve their own article, otherwise link to the fictional work in which they appear
University of Edgestow (That Hideous Strength by C. Lewis)
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 fictional seats of learning
Bracton College, Edgestow (That Hideous Strength by C.
Lowlands University (A Very Peculiar Practice - TV series)
University of California Sunnydale (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV series)
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 Ex Libris Reviews: 1 March 2000
The book concerns a young couple, Mark and Jane Studdock, and is told almost completely from their separate points of view.
Mark is a university professor, fellow of Bracton College in Edgestow, and a man who desperately wants to be on the Inside--a man of no principles save those which will ingratiate him with those in the Ruling Clique of whatever institution he finds himself in.
His wife Jane is a student of English Literature who has given up her academic work, for the time being anyway, to marry Mark.
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 ANQ: C. S. Lewis's "Edgestow" as Homophonic Polysemy.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
ANQ: C. Lewis's "Edgestow" as Homophonic Polysemy.@ HighBeam Research
However, a remarkable example of homophonic polysemy, so beloved of Anglo-Saxon writers, whether poets or chroniclers, is to be found in C. Lewis's That Hideous Strength (1945), the third and last volume of the so-called Cosmic Trilogy.
The name of the town--and of its "very small university [which] has no resemblance, save for its smallness, to Durham" (Strength 353)--in which the war for Thulcandra unfolds is given as "Edgestow." Lewis, echoing an Anglo-Saxon poet, has loaded this word.
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 Harry Potter: Real Names & Real Witches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
same time a religion, a philosophy, and a natural science...we must inquire for its processes of Paracelsus [and] Nicholas Flamel..." (p.774) According to Pike, the goal of magic is to master the universe by learning the principles of divine creation.
'non-historical,'" Parker said, "but that it exhibits certain characteristics, certain ideas, recurring themes such as the dying and rising God, the sense of the moral universe behind things.
Tolkien, you can go back to the 'Silmarilion' and the view of God which comes through there.
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