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xii all nations. Some two or three centuries later Bologna became noted as a Medical School, and is said to have been the first in which the dissection of the human body was practised. There does not seem to have ever been any College in connexion with the University at Bologna.

Paris became an University at the close of the twelfth century; at least it then began to be called by that name, although it had certainly for some years before that time been virtually an University, by a voluntary association of its members, without any Royal or Papal charter of Foundation. Pope In- nocent III., who reigned from 1198 to 1216, gives the title of University to the School of Paris in one of his Decretals, and Rigord, in his Annals of Philip Augustus, King of France, gives it the same title. The manners of those ancient times were rude and simple. The students lived in such lodgings as they could find in the city, taking their meals in taverns and baking houses. Such