Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (Russian: Владивосто́кский госуда́рственный университе́т эконо́мики и се́рвиса), or VSUES (ВГУЭС), is a university located in Vladivostok, Russia.
The university was founded in 1967 as Far Eastern Technological Institute (Дальневосто́чный технологи́ческий институ́т), or FETI (ДВТИ). The university received full accreditation in 1996.
Today, the university offers a large variety of degrees, which include business, management, computer sciences, psychology, sociology, fashion, and others.
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“From this elevation, just on the skirts of the clouds, we could overlook the country, west and south, for a hundred miles. There it was, the State of Maine, which we had seen on the map, but not much like that,—immeasurable forest for the sun to shine on, the eastern stuff we hear of in Massachusetts. No clearing, no house. It did not look as if a solitary traveler had cut so much as a walking-stick there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)