Imperial University

Imperial University may refer to:

  • Imperial University (Université Impériale) or University of France, the French university re-organisation initiated by Napoleon.
  • The National Seven Universities (全国七大学, zenkoku shichidaigaku?) of Japan, originally founded as Imperial Universities before World War II
    • Keijō Imperial University, founded under Japanese rule, now part of the University of Seoul, Korea
    • National Taiwan University, founded under Japanese rule as "Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University"
  • Imperial University of Vilna; now Vilnius University, Lithuania
  • Imperial University of Warsaw; now University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or university:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

    “Cold an old predicament of the breath:
    Adroit, the shapely prefaces complete,
    Accept the university of death.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)