Ancient University
The ancient universities are seven still-existent British and Irish medieval and renaissance universities . Six of those universities are currently located in the United Kingdom and one in Ireland. The ancient universities in the British Isles are amongst the oldest extant universities in the world.
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“An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower,
A farmhouse that is sheltered by its wall,
An acre of stony ground,
Where the symbolic rose can break in flower,
Old ragged elms, old thorns innumerable....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.”
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