A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from November 08, 2017
“A university is a city in outer space”

The word “university” sounds like “universe city.” A pun was posted on the website Pun of the Day by Joseph Leff of Brooklyn, New York, on November 9, 2017:
 
“A university is a city in outer space.”
 
           
Online Etymology Dictionary
university (n.)
c. 1300, “institution of higher learning,” also “body of persons constituting a university,” from Anglo-French université, Old French universite “universality; academic community” (13c.), from Medieval Latin universitatem (nominative universitas), “the whole, aggregate,” in Late Latin “corporation, society,” from universus “whole, entire” (see universe). In the academic sense, a shortening of universitas magistrorum et scholarium “community of masters and scholars;” superseded studium as the word for this. The Latin word also is the source of Spanish universidad, German universität, Russian universitetŭ, etc.
 
Pun of the Day
A university is a city in outer space.
Category - University
Submitted by - Joseph Leff - Brooklyn, NY
 
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A university is a city in outer space. Comment On This Pun!
2:17 AM - 9 Nov 2017
   
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November 9, 2017 - A university is a… - A university is a city in outer space. Comment On This Pun! http://ow.ly/bOUA50f51fH
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‘A university is a city in outer space.’
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A university is a city in outer space.
submitted November 9, 2017 by wonliners

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityEducation/Schools • Wednesday, November 08, 2017 • Permalink


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