Academic Glossary
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- Chargee
- Member of the board of the activity.
- Corporation
- A traditional kind of society at a university (academic corporation) or secondary school (scholar corporation) without any economic purpose.
An early form of corporation came up in the Middle Ages. These corporations were in Latin called nationes and were student guilds of fellow countrymen at a university abroad.
Today corporations are known in more than 30 countries in the world, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Ukraine, the United States, and Venezuela. - Corps
- A kind of fencing corporation based on the principle of tolerance. See also reform corps.
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