18. What is probably the greatest work of any university, in any age?

19. Compare the influence of the mediaeval university, and the Greek
universities of the ancient world.

20. Explain the evolution of the English college system as an effort to
improve discipline, morals, and thinking. Has it been successful in this?

21. Show how the mediaeval university put books in the place of things,
whereas the modern university tries to reverse this.

22. Show how the rise of the universities gave an educated ruling class to
Europe, even though the nobility may not have attended them.

23. Show how, in an age of lawlessness, the universities symbolized the
supremacy of mind over brute force.

24. Show how the mediaeval universities aided civilization by breaking
down, somewhat, barriers of nationality and ignorance among peoples.

25. Show how the university stood, as the crowning effort of its time, in
the slow upward struggle to rebuild civilization on the ruins of what had
once been.


SELECTED READINGS

In the accompanying _Book of Readings_ the following selections are
reproduced: