UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 



modesty of their wives and daughters, to belabour the watchmen and throw 

 the sergeants into the Seine, were deeds of valour recorded in the souvenirs 

 of the University, and long talked of by the pupils of the Navarre and 

 Montaigu Colleges. 



The student of the Middle Ages was, as a peculiar type, essentially 

 Parisian at first, though he soon became naturalised in all the towns where 

 a University was founded after the twelfth century. He was, perhaps, the 



Fig. 33. External View of Leyden University, founded in 1575 by William of Nassau. From a 

 contemporary Drawing in the work entitled, "Illustrium Holland!*, etc., ordinum alma 

 Academia Leydensis " (Lugd. Batav., 1614, in quarto). 



greatest gossip and pedant in Italy, where the University of Bologna, founded 

 in 1158, soon led to the creation of Universities at Naples (1224), Padua 

 (1228), Rome (1245), and Pisa (1333). Students of this stamp naturally 

 became still more arrogant and quarrelsome in the Germanic Universities 

 which were founded in succession at Prague (1348), Cologne (1385), Heidel- 

 berg (1386), and Leipsic (1409). The English students at Oxford (1200) and 

 Cambridge (1257) were less noisy ; the Spanish students in the Universities 

 of Valencia (1209), Salamanca (1250), and Valladolid (1246) were more 



