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Page 122 - Die urkundlichen Quellen zur Geschichte der Universität Leipzig in den ersten 150 Jahren ihres Bestehens," in Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Leipzig, 1857), ii, pp.
Page 46 - But now-a-days all the students must needs attend lectures on Virgil and Pliny and the rest of the newfangled authors — what is more, they may listen to them for five years and yet get no degree: and so, when they return home, their parents ask them, saying, "What art thou?
Page 47 - Yet all of them are eager to study the Humanities. When a Magister lectureth he findeth no audience ; but, as for the Poets, when they discourse it is a marvel to behold the crowd of listeners. And thus the Universities throughout all Germany are minished and brought low. Let us pray God, then, that all the Poets may perish...
Page 70 - ... be the custom for the candidates either to present their examiners with a piece of gold or to give them an handsome entertainment, and make them drunk; which they commonly do the night before examination, and sometimes keep them till morning, and so adjourn, cheek by jowl from their drinkingroom to the school, where they are to be examined.
Page 75 - The King, instead of punishing the student, gave him the prebendary of St. Quentin, en Vermandois, " because he was in the habit of getting up at this hour to study."— Miniature of Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. Burgundy Library, Brussels. the close of the Carnival of 1228, Queen Blanche, who was Regent during the minority of her son, Louis IX., inflicted severe punishment...
Page 36 - They say that if we shall have been at the beginning and end of the lectures, it's enough for completion, and if we wish, we may attend three or four times in the middle. Bar. Why so? What sort of a completion would that be? Cam. They say that we learn nothing in the lectures, especially in the higher books, namely of physics and the like, but when the time comes for promotion,it'll be given to us.
Page 59 - At ten of the clocke they go to dynner, whereas they be contente wyth a penye pyece of byefe1 amongest iiij, havyng a fewe porage made of the brothe of the same byefe wyth salte and otemell, and nothynge els.
Page 21 - Each and every one attached to this University is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at...
Page 46 - An old Magister of Leipsic, who hath been Master for these thirty years, told me that when he was a lad, then did the University greatly prosper: those were the days when there was not a Poet within twenty miles.
Page 55 - First, we don't shut out the nominalists; if we can get any g00d out of them, we're perfectly willing to do so. Second, masters of each method are admitted. Each is permitted to state what he may have in his demonstrations. Indeed, among us there are some who follow Albert, some who esteem Thomas, some who admire the most subtle John the Scot, and follow in his f00tsteps; and the teaching of all these doctors contributes to the exercise of the understanding.