material existence which with us are so
self-evident." The mediaeval university
was, in the fine old phrase of Pasquier,
"built of men" -- bâtie en hommes. Such
a university had no board of trustees and
published no catalogue; it had no student
societies -- except so far as the university
itself was fundamentally a society of stu-
dents -- no college journalism, no dra-
matics, no athletics, none of those "out-
side activities" which are the chief excuse
for inside inactivity in the American
college.

And yet, great as these differences are,
the fact remains that the university of the
twentieth century is the lineal descendant
of mediaeval Paris and Bologna. They
are the rock whence we were hewn, the
hole of the pit whence we were digged.
The fundamental organization is the
same the historic continuity is unbroken.
They created the university tradition of
the modern world, that common tradition
which belongs to all our institutions of
higher learning, the newest as well as the

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