Best College Mottos

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<p>What are your favorite college mottos?</p>

<p>My top includes Harvard: Veritas(although they changed it), Yale: Lux et Veritas, Stanford: Die Luft der Freiheit weht</p>

<p>Funny ones/Too long</p>

<p>Cornell : “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”</p>

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<p>Evergreen State College: *Omnia Extares<a href="%22let%20it%20all%20hang%20out%22">/i</a></p>

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<p>UT Austin - “Hook 'em, Horns!” :)</p>

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<p>My top includes Harvard: Veritas(although they changed it)…</p>

<p>Veritas is still Harvard’s motto.</p>

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<p>I always joking confuse Harvard’s with “in vino veritas.” UCLA has some words in Royce Hall that confuse plenty of smart folks: “Education is learning to use the tools which the race has found indispensable.”</p>

<p>But really, this one would fit many: Venimus, Vidimus, Bibimus.
We came, We saw, We drank.</p>

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<p>I’ve always liked Brown’s: In Deo Speramus “In God We Hope” - with the rising sun motif on the shield it always makes me feel positive and happier when I see it. Might be part of why Brown kids are always a little cheerier and less jaded than the other Ivies.</p>

<p>For cleverness, I appreciate UW-Madison’s Numen Lumen which is supposed to mean “God our Light”. It’s not idiomatic Latin at all, but it sounds cool.</p>

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<p>It used to be Veritas, Christo Ecclesias or something like that (Harvard)</p>

<p>Oh yes I love Brown’s too!</p>

<p>Numen Lumen sounds great in my head</p>

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<p>It used to be Veritas, Christo Ecclesias or something like that (Harvard)</p>

<p>Ah, you meant that they changed it to Veritas. Yes, quite some time ago.</p>

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<p>Viriginia Tech’s : Ut Prosim - That I May Serve</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, look at this old Harvard seal:</p>

<p><a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/The_Seal_of_Harvard_College_as_inscribed_on_the_top_of_the_Entrance_into_the_Main_Campus_of_Harvard_College..JPG[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/The_Seal_of_Harvard_College_as_inscribed_on_the_top_of_the_Entrance_into_the_Main_Campus_of_Harvard_College..JPG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>They had Veritas on the shield, like now, and “Christo et Ecclessiae” on a scroll around it - “truth for Christ and the Church”. The scroll apparently fell victim to Harvard going Unitarian, and Charles W. Eliot being determined to make it a scientific institution.</p>

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<p>I’ve found Bowdoin’s motto to be unique: Ut Aquila Versus Coelum-As an eagle to the sky… I’m not quite sure what it means but it sounds majestic none the less.</p>

<p>IMO, I find Dartmouth’s a bit funny: Vox clamantis in deserto-A voice crying out in the wilderness. </p>

<p>If I’m correct, it’s quoted from the Bible but I’m interested as to why this phrase is their motto.</p>