UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS, 



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Middle Ages by the Greeks and the Arabs. The three ne\\ faculties created 

 at the University continued to be' .subordinate, notwithstanding their gradual 

 development, to the Faculty of Arts (Fig. 15) ; the body of the four nations, 

 of which this last-mentioned faculty consisted, assured it a clear prepon- 

 derance, with the maintenance of certain essential prerogatives. Thus each 

 nation elected a proctor, and each faculty a dean. The mode of election 



Fig. 16. Rector and Doctor of the University of Paris. After a Miniature of the " Cit de 

 Dieu " (Fifteenth Century). Manuscript of the Paris National Library. 



for the proctors and their term of office varied, however, with different 

 nations. The Faculty of Arts had four proctors (Fig. 15). The Faculty 

 of Theology, besides ite dean, who was the senior doctor, chose every other 

 year a syndic, whose business it was to administer the private business of the 

 company. The Decree Faculty had only a dean selected by seniority in the 

 grade of doctor, and the Faculty of Medicine had a dean elected every year 



