Essays by the Late Mark Pattison, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889), p. 325:
A university is the organ of the intellectual life of the nation; it is the school of learning, the nursery of the
liberal arts, the academy of the sciences, the home of letters, the retreat of the studious and the contemplative.
From Richard Seibert:
Your “What is a University” post reminds me that David Lance Goines (Berkeley poster artist and graphic designer) used to say:
“It’s not a university if it doesn’t have a classics department.”
He said this when he was designing a poster for one year’s Sather Lectures. 2013, François Lissarrague’s Panta Kala: Heroic Warriors and the Aesthetics of Weaponry in Greek Art.