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US Latin College Mottos
When not in English, university mottoes are usually in Latin, reflecting the origin of universities in mediaeval institutions in which Latin was very prominent.
Here are mottos of various colleges and universities in the USA.
Amherst College: Terras irradient. ("Let them illumine the earth.")
Brooklyn College: Nil sine magno labore. ("Nothing without great effort.")
Brown University: In Deo speramus. ("In God we trust.")
City College of New York: Respice, adspice, prospice. ("Look back, look to the present, look to the future.")
Columbia University: In lumine tuo videbimus lumen. ("In thy light, we shall see light.")
Dartmouth College: Vox clamantis in deserto. ("A voice of one crying in the wilderness.")
Delaware College: Scientia sol mentis. ("Knowledge, the sun of the mind.")
Fordham University: Sapientia et doctrina. ("Wisdom and knowledge.")
Harvard University: Veritas. ("Truth.")
Hunter College: Mihi cura futuri. ("My anxiety is for the future.")
Johns Hopkins University: Veritas vos liberabit. ("Truth will free you.")
Miami University: Prodessequam conspici. ("To the productive, rather than to be ornamental.")
New York University: Perstare et praestare. ("To preserve and to surpass")
Trinity College: Pro ecclesia et patria. ("For church and country.")
Tulane University: Non sibi, sed suis. ("Not for herself, but for her own.")
crescat scientia, vita excolatur
Let knowledge increase, let life be perfected (motto of the University of Chicago)
University of Florida: Civium in moribu rei publiae salus. ("In the character of its citizens lies the welfare of the state.")
University of Michigan: Artes, scientia, veritas. ("The arts, knowledge, truth.")
University of Mississippi: Virtute et armis. ("By valour and arms.")
University of Missouri: Salus populi. ("The welfare of the people.")
University of New Mexico: Lux hominum vita. ("Light of the life of men.")
University of Washington: Lux sit. ("Let there be light.")
Yale University: Lux et veritas. ("Light and truth.")
Deus nobis fiducia
God is our trust (motto of George Washington University)
disciplina praesidium civitatis
Instruction is the safeguard of the state (motto of the University of Texas)
Deus lux Mea
God is my light (motto of the Catholic University of America)
Dei sub numine viget
It flourishes under the will of God (motto of Princeton University)
crux spes unica
The cross is the only hope (motto of Notre Dame University)
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