Skule

From skule, a deliberate misspelling of school that was used by the students during its founding years.

Skule

1. (informal) The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.
   • 1959 January 21, ‘Four Years Of Sweat?’, Toike Oike, volume 52, number 6, Toronto, Ont.: Engineering Society of the University of Toronto, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     We asked him if he didn’t think that about a year from now he would look back on Skule days and remember a few things that weren't so bad.

   • 1985, “One Hundred Years of Skule”, in Canadian Chemical News, volume 37, Ottawa, Ont.: Chemcan Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

     One hundred years ago Canada’s oldest Engineering Society was founded by a group of students over dinner. […] This Society was to go on to represent the 23,000 students who graduated from the School (affectionately known as Skule, […]

   • 2008, Yutaka Harold Yoneyama, “University of Toronto”, in An Evacuee’s Memoir: An Account from the Writer's Own Recollection, Toronto, Ont.: Pro Familia Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

     Apparently some of the Ajax students, during University of Toronto’s initiation week, somehow talked a distaff medical student to come to Ajax. She obviously was not aware that she was going to be held hostage for a few days. Her parents were kept informed and guaranteed no harm would come to their daughter. All this because the famous Skule cannon was stolen by the Med students.

   • 2015 October, Dominic Hong, edited by Edgar Wang, The Cannon, volume XXXVIII, number 2, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Engineering Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     We publish Skule-related news ranging from personal topics to community-wide issues, as you will come across later on during your year at Skule.