<p>^^ hehehehe
that is a wonderful motto</p>
<p>I love that Cornell's is the only ivy motto in English. They put it all over their admissions materials...I feel that they think it encourages people to apply.</p>
<p>"Why go to college when you can go to Pitzer"</p>
<p>Always a favorite of mine (and a lovely joke created by the 5C crew team)</p>
<p>I like #4--double entendres rock.</p>
<p>I like Mcdonalds Motto</p>
<p>Puh Puh Puh Puh Puh, I'm Loving it!</p>
<p>Cornell's -- too long. I never really liked it.</p>
<p>Brown -- I don't see why this one is so high. It still bears its religious foundations, even though it's non-affiliated now. Harvard even changed its religious motto to the current one. "In God we hope" is irrelevant to the education Brown offers now.</p>
<p>Wellesley -- I like it.</p>
<p>Stanford -- It's a little ambiguous what "freedom" is referring to. Perhaps a little irrelevant to the institution.</p>
<p>Penn -- Again, I don't completely see how "Laws without morals are useless" is really relevant to what Penn offers today. It's not as though it's a moralizing institution.</p>
<p>Seton Hall University -- I like it.</p>
<p>Dartmouth College -- Er...? [Sounds a little emo.]</p>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon University -- I like it.</p>
<p>Clark Atlanta University -- Nice sentiment, but perhaps not the best for a college motto.</p>
<p>BYU -- A nice balanced statement. I like it, though to what it's referring in "serving" eludes me (I wonder whether it's alluding to proselytizing others).</p>
<p>I'm disappointed with this list. I'd have liked to see some others on there, like Yale's or U Chicago's.</p>
<p>Yale's motto is boring</p>
<p>Lux et veritas ( Light and truth )</p>
<p>Penn's motto can pass. I mean they do have a law school right?
Cornell's motto, the english && grammar in the sentence throws me off like W/T/F?</p>
<p>"I would found an institution" <<The sentence structure alone in that little part annoys me</p>
<p>""I would found an institution" <<The grammar alone in that little part is horrendous"</p>
<p>I don't think so. It came out in Word ok - what's the better alternative?</p>
<p>I agree that it's hard to beat Faber College's "Knowledge is Good" a la Animal House. But if I had to pick a real world classic motto (albeit unofficial), it would have to belong to the University of Chicago: "Where Fun Comes To Die." Please, U of Chicago fans, don't go crazy. It's a great school and I didn't make up this motto, but I've heard it used many times.</p>
<p>you actually trust Microsoft Word? It's not that great in detecting sentence structure. It detects grammar more</p>
<p>You do realize that the "found" in the motto is not the past tense of "find", yes?</p>
<p>Grammar and sentence structure are two different things.</p>
<p>I think what the poster was implying is that Cornell's motto is more of an off hand quote about what kind of university Ezra would found, given the opportunity.</p>
<p>You do realize that the "found" in the motto is not the past tense of "find", </p>
<p>it isn't? reallY?</p>
<p>^.....sarcasm, i hope</p>
<p>yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but is 'to found' not always the past tense of 'to find'. I don't think ezra meant it in the past tense if he was talking about the future - otherwise he would have said "I would find an institution where..." ... but this isn't the same as founding an insitution.</p>
<p>"you actually trust Microsoft Word?"
word highlights unnecessary grammar or sentence errors (as in, it says it's wrong when it's fine), i've never had it miss catching a real error.</p>
<p>mj93, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic actually. I really did find it surprising that "found" has another meaning</p>
<p>gomestar >Yeah, thats what makes MW annoying. It will have that scribbly green thing under but when you search spelling && grammar, it says its fine</p>
<p>&& MW also misses grammatical errors. I remember posting "We was" rather than "We Were" in an essay and MW didn't signal that to me. It was when I reviewed the say that I caught that error. Just as how your MW didn't catch Cornell's error in the motto</p>
<p>"I would found" sounds a little odd out of context, though I think it's okay. It's not the sentence structure or grammar that seems out of place; it's the word choice (the modal 'would' here seems out of place).</p>
<p>Exactly! The word "would" also makes the sentence sound kind of funny</p>
<p>I doth recon it was said in the 1850's or 60's</p>
<p>Let's see..... I'm reflecting, telling someone about my past plans for a school, and I say:</p>
<p>(I decided that) I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study....</p>
<p>If you look at it in this context then it makes perfect sense.</p>