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Gradually the fame of the Paris schools rose, increased numbers came to Paris to graduate and teach, the chancellor tried to compell the masters to live in La Cite, the small island on which the cathedral stands, because the chancellor's jurisdiction then did not extend to the left bank of the Seine. The chancellor's reason for trying to keep the Paris masters in his jurisdiction was a fear of definite organization, which would carry out the proposed opposition to his graduating younger men, who as teachers would of course reduce the fees of the other instructors. The masters...
This "boycott" they enforced by refusing to teach the chancellors' pets in the higher branches of learning, and by refusing to let their pupils attend the readings of the non-Union teachers. The chapter and chancellor of Paris, seeing their lawful authority thus obstructed, proceeded to imprison the Union teachers, and as a final sentence, excommunicated the recalcitrant masters. Then they strengthened their union more and more. When the masters who were excommunicated appealed to Rome, the Pope recognized these unions as corporations and thus practically gave the teachers the upper hand. These corporations became faculties in the thirteenth century...
...beginning of the 13th century there were 10,000 students in Bologna; toward the end of the century the number had doubled. The town of course did its utmost to keep the trade of these foreigners, even to the extent of binding the professors by oath not to teach elsewhere but in Bologna. The extortions and injustice to the students at last brought about voluntary associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea of corporation, college, corps, i. e., a juristic personality. The thirty-five...
...special object of the school is to teach students to observe, the instruction will be necessarily limited in range and will be directed chiefly to the explanation of problems met in the field. Advanced knowledge of geology will not be required, but only teachers, graduates of colleges or persons of maturity and some training can be admitted. Only men can be accepted as students. Each student should have a satchel, note-book, hammer and compass. There will be opportunities to collect rocks and fossils...
Prof. Goodwin of Harvard, referring to the effects of increasing the optional list, said that thirty years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek in Harvard. Now both are elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only twenty-eight hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually so devoted and now eighty-seven hours are given in new instruction...