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Campus Information: College Knowledge

Translations of campus inscriptions

Over Porter's Lodge:

"Know thyself"

Over the Calhoun Street gate:

"Forsan et hace olim meminisse juvabit" ("Perhaps it will give us pleasure to remember these things someday," from Virgil's Aeneid)

Motto on College's seal:

"Sepiemtia ipsa libertas/ aedes mores juraque curat" ("Knowledge itself is liberty/ She cares for her temples, customs, and rights")

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