UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 



represented a sort of general school, any one who had obtained a license hired 

 a room, and invited the public to take lessons from him. Thus the Univer- 

 sity quarter, which was afterwards called the "Latin quarter," became 

 peopled with masters and schools. It soon became necessary to erect hotels 

 or private dwellings to take in the students, who were at once eager to 

 learn, and very scantily provided with money (Fig. 23). This was the 

 origin of the Paris colleges, under which name were founded, in the early 

 days of the University, various establishments, in which aspirants for reli- 

 gious orders studied at the expense of the monastic orders to which they 



Pig. 23. Interior of a School. After a Design of the Sixteenth Century. National Library. 

 Cabinet of Designs (Old Masters) on Wood. 



belonged. Private charity soon created colleges of a similar kind for 

 laymen, veritable houses of refuge, in which the students were provided, 

 to use the apposite expression of one founder, with bread for the body and 

 the mind. This double character of liberality and devotion is a prominent 

 feature in the primitive constitution of these establishments, which were 

 founded and endowed by pious persons with the view of assisting the educa- 

 tion of the poor. Such were, in the thirteenth century, the Colleges of the 

 Bons Enfants St. Honore (1208), and of the Bons Enfants St. Victor (1248), 

 the Colleges of St. Catherine du Valdes Ecoliers (1229), and of Premontre 



