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Title: Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940
Subjects: University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England History
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: OISE - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f course it is no exclusively English word. Thename, Universitas, is as old as the Pandects of Jus-tinian, where it stands for much the same thing asCollegium, a corporation of any kind. Its applicationto scholastic corporations began with the first Italianuniversities, Salerno and Bologna. In the Anglo-Latin law of the twelfth century it was familiarlyapplied to any body of men who possessed a collectivelegal status and rights which could be legally enforcedagainst individuals or other corporations. The Uni-versitas may be a town, a county, a guild. Noverituniversitas vcstra, Know all of you, in a writ isthe customary mode of addressing an organised collec-tion of individuals. The word has no specific meaningwithout a defining genitive. A teaching Universitas is a guild of scholars,Universitas Scholarium. Like a trade or craft guildit makes its own conditions of membership ; it makesby-laws for its own government; it exacts fees ofits members, and it jealously excludes outsiders from
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ST. BENETS CHURCH THE WANDERING SCHOLARS 13 meddling in its business. Like a trade guild it hasits apprentices— pupils they were called in theUniversity guild — and its duly qualified masters.The apprentices in either case, whatever their pro-ficiency, have to learn their trade for seven yearsbefore they can become masters, whether in the art of a craft or the liberal arts of science andhumanity. The individual master or the guildmay on its own authority commit the apprentice togaol if he misconducts himself: and the same poweris constantly exercised by the Chancellor and Mastersof the University. Usually the apprentice lives withhis master, who is bound to give him instruction.The guild usually has a hall for its general meetings,possibly a chapel and one or more chaplains. Other-wise it will assemble for secular as well as religiouspurposes in a parish church : so it was that the guildscholars of Cambridge successively used Saint Benetsand Saint Clarys churches as their place of

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