Faculty

Faculty

Faculty refers to the academic staff at a university or college, or a division of a university.

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Famous quotes containing the word faculty:

    “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”
    —Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

    “If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)