Tweet. 1  There's a type of word in the English language called a collective noun.. It is a word used for a group of individuals. 2  A group of cats can also be called a clutter, a glaring, or a pounce. 3  It seems as though most groups of cats would prefer to go by something that sounds more regal, like pride.
Ricks College. In 1903, the school was renamed again as Ricks Academy in honor of Thomas E. Ricks, the Bannock Stake president at the time it was founded and the chairman of the school's first Board of Education.
When UMUC was created in the 1940s (no kidding) it was one of the sub-colleges of the University of Maryland. It was called University College because it offered courses from all the other sub-colleges of the University, but as a distance-learning institution. I took courses from UMUC back in the mid-1980s.