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Happy back to school! Parents, teachers and students, find funny and motivational back-to-school quotes about education, learning and working with others.
The owl, a nocturnal hunter, was initially adopted as a symbol because Temple University began as a night school for young people of limited means. Russell Conwell , Temple's founder, encouraged these students with the remark: "The owl of the night makes the eagle of the day."
In the classroom, Bunter's erudition is slight to non-existent. His extreme laziness and ineptitude is the despair of his Form master, Mr Quelch. Bunter's personal habits are lazy and slovenly. He is always the last to rise in the morning and always chooses to remain in bed a few extra minutes instead of washing.
"A Wise Old Owl" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes , 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme "There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle."
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The Doyle Owl – unofficial mascot of Reed College, a stone or cement owl sculpture subject to theft, showings, battles royale, capture, and related pranks [4] Dubs II – the 14th live husky mascot of the Washington Huskies; Dunker – Horse mascot of the Murray State Racers; Durango – Bull mascot of the Omaha Mavericks
An Online Writing Lab (OWL) is often an extension of a university writing center. Online writing labs offer help to students and other writers by providing literacy materials, such as handouts and slide presentations. Writers may also submit questions electronically for feedback. Many OWLs are open to people unaffiliated with the specific ...
An owl, a symbol of knowledge and learning, is hidden in the folds of Alma Mater 's cloak near her left leg. [27] There has been some speculation on the exact meaning of the owl, including by history professor Dwight C. Miner , who believed that the owl was a reference to the Psi Upsilon fraternity, of which Miner believed French to have been a ...