College

(kol'lij.) [L. collegium.] In its Roman and most extended sense, any a ociation of persons for a specific purpose. The Romans had C. which were a species of corporate body, as that of the Augurs; and others whose members had no bond of union but that ofa common occupation, as the Collegia Opificium (colleges of workmen). In England and in this country, the word has received many similar applications; thus, the Royal C. of Physicians, the Heralds' C., the C. of Electors of President and Vice-President of the U. States, .-In an academic sense, a C. is a society established for scholastic purposes, endowed with revenues and subject to a code of laws. When one body imparts instruction in all the branches of knowledge, it is both a college and a university; thus, Trinity C., Dublin. On the other hand, a number of colleges, united under the same discipline, constitute a university. Such distinction between colleges and universities does not exist in the U. States where the two terms are used indiscriminately, the American colleges conferring degrees in the arts, and the older and more flourishing of them having faculties, and giving also instruction in medicine, divinity, or law. See UNIVERSITY. College Hill, a vill. of Ohio, Hamilton co., 6 m. N. of Cincinnati, containing Farmers' College, and the Ohio Female College. College of St. James, a village of Maryland, in Washington co., abt. 6 m. S.E. of Hagerstown; so called from the Protestant Episcopal college here located. College Point, a village of New York, Queen's co. Pop. 3,652. [s. 205]