40 UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 



pompous and . austere ; the Portuguese students at Coimbra (1279) and 

 Lisbon (1290) were more proud and vain ; the Swiss students at Geneva 

 (1368) and Bale (1459) appear to have been rather torpid and full of 

 formality, while the Dutch students at Louvain (1426) and Leyden (1575) 

 were remarkable for their close application to work. But the Paris student 

 hardly changed in any respect ; he remained the same gay and mirthful 

 companion that Rabelais has depicted in the Panurge of his "Pantagruel." 



