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Cambridge University Library

 

(1) originally used, usually in the plural, of lecture rooms assigned to different faculties; (2) then both of buildings (hence the Old Schools) and of the academical discipline fostered within it; (3) nowadays also used of groupings of academical subjects, currently Arts and Humanities; Biological Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; and Technology. See also the Councils of the Schools.