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places were not then so dangerous to morals as similar establish- ments would now be ; but it soon became necessary to take them under surveillance of the University, and to grant licenses to the lodging-house keepers. The same growing evils led, in Paris especially, to the establishment of Colleges.^[1] The bishops first, and afterwards the religious orders, perceived the advantage of this innovation, both as diminishing the expenses of the theo- logical or monastic students, and as bringing them under a more efficient discipline. The episcopal colleges for theological stu- dents seem to have been first established in the palaces of the bishops, and afterwards in buildings specially erected for

them in the neighbourhood of the palaces.^[2]

↑ It is not necessary to give here any account of the laws made at different times to preserve discipline at Paris, and other Universities. After the faculty of Arts at Paris had been divided into four nations by a Bull of Pope Gregory IX. (1231)) many serious quarrels arose, from national prejudices. King Philip Augustus enacted that the Masters and students should be under the responsibility of the citizens of Paris, who should swear to observe the privileges of the University ; see the oath (A. D. 1251), D'Acherii Spicil. torn. iii. {folio edit.), p. 630. Every offender against these privileges was to be given up to the king's judges, and no member of the University whatsoever was to be judged by any lay tribunal. It need scarcely be said how inoperative these enactments were in the maintenance of discipline and morals. In fact, the heads of the University in its earlier times were more anxiously engaged in the defence of their own privileges, than in the protection of the religion and morality of the students. "La morale," says Halmagrand, " n'occupait guère des maitres, préoccupés de leurs disputes scolastiques. Les étudians, méprisaient les preceptes de la charité et de l'humilité chrétiennes pour s'abandonner au torrent de leurs passions," &c.—Histoire de l'Université, p. 85, cf p. 70. The earliest Statutes of the University were made in 1 2 15, to check the disorders of the students, by Robert de Courcéon, Legate of Honorius III.
↑ In the ancient statutes of the University of Paris, compiled in 1371, the Bishop's Hall is spoken of as used for theological Disputations. "Item nota, quod Bachalarii in Theologia tenentur respondere de quaestione in locis publicis aliis Bachulariis, quinquies ad minus, antequam licencientur, scilicet in Aula Episeopi Parisiensis, quando sit ibi aliquis novus Magister in Theologia."— D'Archerii Spicil, torn, iii., p. 735. (Regulæ pro Theologis, n. xviii.)

[1] It is not necessary to give here any account of the laws made at different times to preserve discipline at Paris, and other Universities. After the faculty of Arts at Paris had been divided into four nations by a Bull of Pope Gregory IX. (1231)) many serious quarrels arose, from national prejudices. King Philip Augustus enacted that the Masters and students should be under the responsibility of the citizens of Paris, who should swear to observe the privileges of the University ; see the oath (A. D. 1251), D'Acherii Spicil. torn. iii. {folio edit.), p. 630. Every offender against these privileges was to be given up to the king's judges, and no member of the University whatsoever was to be judged by any lay tribunal. It need scarcely be said how inoperative these enactments were in the maintenance of discipline and morals. In fact, the heads of the University in its earlier times were more anxiously engaged in the defence of their own privileges, than in the protection of the religion and morality of the students. "La morale," says Halmagrand, " n'occupait guère des maitres, préoccupés de leurs disputes scolastiques. Les étudians, méprisaient les preceptes de la charité et de l'humilité chrétiennes pour s'abandonner au torrent de leurs passions," &c.—Histoire de l'Université, p. 85, cf p. 70. The earliest Statutes of the University were made in 1 2 15, to check the disorders of the students, by Robert de Courcéon, Legate of Honorius III.

[2] In the ancient statutes of the University of Paris, compiled in 1371, the Bishop's Hall is spoken of as used for theological Disputations. "Item nota, quod Bachalarii in Theologia tenentur respondere de quaestione in locis publicis aliis Bachulariis, quinquies ad minus, antequam licencientur, scilicet in Aula Episeopi Parisiensis, quando sit ibi aliquis novus Magister in Theologia."— D'Archerii Spicil, torn, iii., p. 735. (Regulæ pro Theologis, n. xviii.)

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