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Creighton University
Overview
Creighton University () is a private research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the university enrolled 8,838 undergraduate and graduate students as of fall 2024. In addition to the main 140-acre (57 ha) campus just outside of downtown Omaha, the university operates the Creighton University Medical Center and has a second campus focused on health sciences in Phoenix, Arizona. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Its athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as the Creighton Bluejays.
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Arbuthnot, 258. Aristotle, 19, 41, 53, 78-79, 153, 154, 184. Athenaeus, 87. Attwood, 100. Bailey, 84. Barbon, 95. Bastiat, 34. Berkeley, Bischop, 32, 95-96, 155. Bernier, 173. Blake, 133, 250. Blanc, Louis, 231. Boisguillebert, 56, 59, 121, 133, 166, 168, 198. Bosanquet, 124, 235, 242. Bray, 106. Brougham, 70. Buchanan, 147. Büsch, 231. Carli, 205. Castlereagh, Lord, 100. Cato, 170. Chevalier, 154, 215. Clay, 258…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Many books from the faculty library bear signatures of individual priests who were their original owners. Thus the second inscription "Dilhet" refers to Jean Dilhet (1753-1811), a Sulpician who spent nine years in this country and was assigned to the pastorate of Raisin River (then in the Northwest Territory, in what is now Monroe County, Mich.) from 1798 to 1804. During 1804 and 1805 he worked in Detroit with…
Roger J. Trienens, Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States
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Offer the opportunities, leave the student to his natural reaction on them, and he will work out his personal destiny, be it a high one or a low one. Above all things, offer the opportunity of higher personal contacts. A university provides these anyhow within the student body, for it attracts the more aspiring of the youth of the country, and they befriend and elevate one another. But we are only beginning in this…
William James, Memories and Studies
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Part of Polytheism.