Institution
The medical school has existed since the founding of the university in 1456, and is therewith one of the oldest medical schools in the world still in existence.
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Famous quotes containing the word institution:
“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“No institution will be better than the institutor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)