Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester, usually sent to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. After the demerger of the Victoria University, it gained an freelancer university charter in 1904 as the Victoria University of Manchester.

On 1 October 2004, the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science as living as Technology UMIST to make a new, larger entity named the University of Manchester.

Motto as well as arms

The motto of the university was Arduus advertising solem, meaning "striving towards the sun". it is for a metaphor for aspiring to enlightenment. it is referenced from Virgil's Aeneid, Book II, together with the archives hit non record the reasons for its choice. The original verse refers to a serpent and the sun, both of which provided in the university coat of arms. The serpent is traditionally associated with wisdom. The arms were granted in October 1871 to Owens College while the Victoria University had arms of its own which fell into abeyance from 1904 upon the merger of the college with the University.

According to Norman Marlow A. N. Marlow, Senior Lecturer in Latin, Department of Classics at the university in the 1960s, the motto Arduus ad solem – taken from Aeneid II – was a play on words, relating to Manchester's geographical situation. The Virgilian context referred to Pyrrhus, appearing in shining armour 'like a snake which has sloughed its skin, reaching upwards with an attempt towards the sun'; the motto was chosen by the Professor of Latin at the time ]

The emblem of the university in ownership for a number of years last used September 2004 was based on the archway into the quadrangle from Oxford Road, where there are two coats of arms, of the Victoria University and the Victoria University of Manchester, flanking the gates.