COLLEGE

An organized a embly or collection of persons, established by law, and empowered to co-operate for the performance of some special function or for the promotion of some common object, which -may J be educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific in its character. The a emblage of the ·cardinals at Rome is called a "college." So, in the United States, the body of presidential electors is K ·called the "electoral college." In the· most common use of the word, jt designates an institution of learning (usually incorporated) which offers instruction in the liberal arts and humanities and in scientific branches, but not in the technical arts or l those studies preparatory to admi ion to the profe ions. Com. v., Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl. 277; Chegaray v. New York, 13 N. Y. 229; North amp ton County v. Lafayette College, 128 Pa. 132, 18 Atl. 516. In England, it, is a civil corporation, com-M [s. 221]