Word: bologna
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...800th anniversary of the University of Bologna, Italy, will be celebrated this summer. Delegates from the leading American Universities and Colleges have been invited, and Yale, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell and Johns Hopkins University have already signified their intention of sending delegates. The Yale Faculty have appointed Hon. Eugene Schuyler, as the Yale delegate...
Prof. T. F. Crane and Dr. Eugene Schuyler, will represent Cornell at the exercises held by the University of Bologna, Italy, celebrating the eight hundredth birthday, on the twelfth of next June...
...importance of the early development of the University of Paris to the modern university consists mainly in the fact that all academic faculties since organized are directly traceable to this source. As the University of Bologna was primarily a corporation of law students, the University of Paris grew from the association of teachers of scholastic philosophy. The Crusades had set in motion the religious and moral sentiments of Europe, which greatly agitated the masses. This gave an extensive impulse to the teaching of the cloister and Episcopal schools, of which Paris by various circumstances became the centre and embodiment...
...constitution of any university depends entirely on the proportionate use of two factors: the powers in the hands of the faculties as such, and the powers entrusted to a rector, or as we say, president. The faculty system is from Paris, that of the rector from Bologna. The constitution of Harvard University is only seemingly anomolous since the overseers exercise the power which in Europe is exercised by the faculties or teachers in convocation. The Corporation of Harvard College, although only designed to copy the body found in the English colleges under the university in power is the Bolognese student...
...proper understanding of the development of the universities, it is desirable to glance at the growth of the prototypes of all universities, Bologna and Paris. The causes which made these institutions possible are the same. When the crusades had thoroughly leavened the social and mental structure of Europe, the municipalities of Lombardy demanded a corps of trained administrators to cope with the problems of a vigorous trading policy and intense political strife. This tendency was localized by the pitching of Irnerius and an able body of successors who maintained the glory of the school. At the beginning of the 13th...