Central Connecticut State University is a State university in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1849 to train teachers, CCSU has expanded over time to become a four-year degree granting institution (in 1934). It reached University status in 1983. Attended by over 12,000 students, 7,500 are full-time undergraduates and more than 2,000 are part-time undergraduates. Graduate students account for over 2,500 students, 630 of whom attend full-time. In the Connecticut State University system, CCSU is the most selective.
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)