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CONTENTS

Chapter I--INTRODUCTORY

Chaucer and the Medieval Student -- The Great Period of University-Founding -- The words "Universitas," "Collegium," "Studium Generale" -- Bologna -- Growth of Studia Generalia -- Paris, Oxford, Cambridge -- Definition of "Universitas"

Chapter II--LIFE IN THE STUDENT-UNIVERSITIES

Student-Guilds at Bologna -- "Nations" -- The College of Doctors -- Relations with the City -- Position of an English Law Student at Bologna, and his relations to his Nation and his Universitas -- The Office of Rector -- Powers of the University over Citizens -- The Degradation of the Bologna Masters -- Examinations -- The Doctorate -- Regulations -- Padua -- Limitations of the Rector's Powers at Florence -- Spanish Universities -- Married Dons

Chapter III--THE UNIVERSITIES OF MASTERS

Early History of the University of Paris -- Faculties -- "Nations" -- Struggle with the Chancellor -- Position of the Rector -- Oxford --"Nations" -- The Proctors -- University Jurisdiction -- Germany -- Scotland

Chapter IV--COLLEGE DISCIPLINE

Origin of the College System -- Merton -- Imitations of the Merton Rule -- New College -- Increase in Number of Regulations --Latin-Speaking -- Conversation in Hall -- Meals -- College Rooms -- Amusements -- Penalties -- Introduction of Corporal Punishment --The Tonsure -- Attendance at Chapel -- Vacations -- Hospitality -- The Career of an English Student -- Meaning of "Poor and Indigent Scholars" -- The College System at Paris -- Sconcing -- Other French Universities -- A Visitation of a Medieval College

Chapter V--UNIVERSITY DISCIPLINE

Growth of Disciplinary Regulations at Paris and Oxford --Records of the Chancellor's Court -- Discipline in Unendowed Halls -- Academic Dress restricted to Graduates -- Louvain -- Leipsic -- Leniency of Punishments -- The Scottish Universities -- Table Manners at Aberdeen -- Life at Heidelberg

Chapter VI--THE "JOCUND ADVENT"

Admission of the Bajan at Paris -- The Universities of Southern France -- The Abbas Bejanorum -- The "Jocund Advent" in Germany -- the "Depositio" -- Oxford -- Scotland

Chapter VII--TOWN AND GOWN

Vienna -- St Scholastica's Day at Oxford -- Assaults by Members of the University -- Records of the "Acta Rectorum" at Leipsic -- Parisian Scholars and the Monks of St Germain

Chapter VIII--SUBJECTS OF STUDY, LECTURES, EXAMINATIONS

Instruction given in Latin -- Preparation for the University --Grammar Masters -- French taught at Oxford -- The "Act" in Grammar --The Seven Liberal Arts and the Three Philosophies -- Text-books -- Ordinary and Cursory Lectures -- Methods of Lecturing -- Repetitions and Disputations -- University and College Teaching -- Examinations at Paris, Louvain, and Oxford -- The Determining Feast -- Walter Paston at Oxford

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