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The Rise of Universities

Chapter 1: THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES
By Charles Homer Haskins
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The lectures trace how a medieval revival of learning produced institutionalized higher education, concentrating on early centers such as Bologna and Paris and the shift from informal instruction to organized faculties, curricula, and academic degrees. They detail classroom practice, textbooks, methods of teaching and examination, and the legal and social status and freedoms of professors. Attention to student life is based on manuals, letters, and poetry, revealing student customs and influences on university culture. The study closes by identifying the medieval inheritance that shaped the structure and traditions of modern universities and offers a bibliographical note for further reading.

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Title: The Rise of Universities

Author: Charles Homer Haskins

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THE COLVER LECTURES
IN BROWN UNIVERSITY
1923

THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES
BY
CHARLES H. HASKINS

COLVER LECTURES

HUMAN LIFE AS THE BIOLOGIST
SEES IT

By Vernon Kellogg


Published by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

BROWN UNIVERSITY. THE COLVER LECTURES, 1923

THE
RISE OF UNIVERSITIES

BY
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS
GURNEY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1923

Copyright, 1923
By Brown University

PRINTED IN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY STUDENTS
IN THREE UNIVERSITIES
1888-1923

The Colver lectureship is provided by a fund of $10,000 presented to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Rosenberger of Chicago in memory of Mrs. Rosenberger’s father, Charles K. Colver of the class of 1842. The following sentences from the letter accompanying the gift explain the purposes of the foundation:—

“It is desired that, so far as possible, for these lectures only subjects of particular importance and lecturers eminent in scholarship or of other marked qualifications shall be chosen. It is desired that the lectures shall be distinctive and valuable contributions to human knowledge, known for their quality rather than their number. Income, or portions of income, not used for lectures may be used for the publication of any of the lectures deemed desirable to be so published.”

Charles Kendrick Colver (1821-1896) was a graduate of Brown University of the class of 1842. The necrologist of the University wrote of him: “He was distinguished for his broad and accurate scholarship, his unswerving personal integrity, championship of truth, and obedience to God in his daily life. He was severely simple and unworldly in character.”

The lectures now published in this series are:—

1916

The American Conception of Liberty and Government, by Frank Johnson Goodnow, LL.D., President of Johns Hopkins University.

[viii]1917

Medical Research and Human Welfare, by W. W. Keen, M.D., LL.D. (Brown), Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

1918

The Responsible State: A Reëxamination of Fundamental Political Doctrines in the Light of World War and the Menace of Anarchism, by Franklin Henry Giddings, LL.D., Professor of Sociology and the History of Civilization in Columbia University; sometime Professor of Political Science in Bryn Mawr College.

1919

Democracy: Discipline: Peace, by William Roscoe Thayer.

1920

Plymouth and the Pilgrims, by Arthur Lord.

1921

Human Life as the Biologist Sees It, by Vernon Kellogg, Sc.D., LL.D., Secretary, National Research Council; sometime Professor in Stanford University.

1922

The Rise of Universities, by Charles H. Haskins, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in Harvard University.