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unusual facts about residential college



Butler Library

Proposed as "South Hall" by the University's former President Nicholas Murray Butler as expansion plans for Low Memorial Library stalled, the new library was funded by Edward Harkness, a Columbia alumnus who was also donor of Yale's residential college system, and designed by his favorite architect, James Gamble Rogers.

Cornell West Campus

Between 2003 and 2007, the halls were demolished in favor of larger residential colleges as part of former president Hunter R. Rawlings III's "West Campus Housing Initiative." For many years Sperry Hall (University Hall #6) was also a Program House.


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Battle of Britain House

After the war, the house was dedicated as a memorial to the Royal Air Force squadrons involved in the Battle of Britain, and became a residential college and headquarters to the Ruislip & District Natural History Society.

Brown College

Brown College at Monroe Hill, a residential college at the University of Virginia

Collegium Regium

Collegium Regium, better known as Regensen, a residential college at the University of Copenhagen, inaugurated in 1623.

Cumberland College

Cumberland College, Otago, a residential college for the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand

Emory College

Oxford College of Emory University, a two-year residential college of Emory University located in Oxford, Georgia, USA.

Lembah Beringin

Kolej Yayasan UEM,a fully residential college, is also located in this township.

Northwest College

Northwest College is a public two-year residential college located in Powell, Wyoming, 70 miles from Yellowstone National Park.

Sydney Teachers College

Prior to that there was a pupil-teacher system in New South Wales, followed by two training colleges, Hurlstone Residential College for women and Fort Street High School for men.