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collegium
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The collegia (plural of a collegium , "joined by law") were government departments in Imperial Russia , established in 1717 by Peter the Great . The departments were housed in the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg . Originally nine were established: ...
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n. 1 (context in Russia English) A committee or council 2 (context in Ancient Rome English) Any of several legal associations
Usage examples of collegium.
Classes at all three Collegia were open to them, and they were required in these days to wear a blue uniform, although that had not always been the case.
But there was always a group of students who came from common blood, who were there at the Collegia, receiving the best education possible in Valdemar, because of merit or exceptional intelligence.
So did their Masters, the teachers at the three Collegia, and those artificers who resided in Haven itself.
Anybody with a free moment at the Palace and the Collegia is gawking like any country cousin!
His idea was to heat the Collegia with the waste hot water from his boiler, while using the steam-piston contrivances attached to it to drive a water pump bringing water up from wells, and to do other mechanical work needed at the complex.
Other people ahead of him surged out of the Collegia buildings, heading in the same direction.
Weaponsmaster, the Court and Collegia are in a week of official mourning.
Palace and Collegia as a Blue would see it, then introduce you to some of her friends.
And then, because this was a mixed class of Trainees from all three Collegia and some Blues as well, there was more delay as Alberich sorted them out into the limited space inside the salle.
The snow was still falling all that afternoon, into the night, and the next day, and Alberich had sent word up to the Collegia that the Trainees were to have a day-and-a-half holiday from their weaponry classes while the salle was cleaned.
Or evenwell, no, probably not three of the common-born female Blues, either, the ones who got into the Collegia on merit.
If they presented themselves to the Collegia cooks before coming down, the Trainees were given pies as well, for the same dual purpose, but nothing like the common sort, which could have stood duty as paving stones.
Not from any other classes at any other part of the three Collegia, only from his own.
But in the end, what saved them all was that Selenay finally got around to declaring a fortnight holiday for all three Collegia, which at least solved the problem of keeping absent minds on study and would-be truants in their seats.
The business of the Collegia was learning, after all, not gamesmanship.