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classical college Que. 
an educational establishment at the secondary-school and college levels that offers a seven- or eight-year course, mainly in the classics and liberal arts, leading to the B.A. degree, which is conferred by the university to which the college is affiliated. The Séminaire de Québec, founded in 1663, was the first classical college.
See also: collège classique
- 1957 The traditional secondary school was the college classique, or classical college, offering to entrants who had had elementary education, a course of about eight years leading to the baccalaureate, or a shorter course of much less prestige including some commercial subjects. The classical colleges were financed by fees, by contributions of former pupils, especially clergy, and by income from property or from agriculture. They were controlled by regents, including professors, who were almost all members of the clergy.
- 1965 Pierre Boucher . . . testified . . . there was tension among his fellow students at the Roman Catholic classical college here after the college receptionist-doorman was beaten to death last April.
- 1957 The traditional secondary school was the college classique, or classical college, offering to entrants who had had elementary education, a course of about eight years leading to the baccalaureate, or a shorter course of much less prestige including some commercial subjects. The classical colleges were financed by fees, by contributions of former pupils, especially clergy, and by income from property or from agriculture. They were controlled by regents, including professors, who were almost all members of the clergy.