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Rh places were not then so dangerous to morals as similar establish- ments would now be ; but it soon became necessary to take them under surveillance of the University, and to grant licenses to the lodging-house keepers. The same growing evils led, in Paris especially, to the establishment of Colleges. The bishops first, and afterwards the religious orders, perceived the advantage of this innovation, both as diminishing the expenses of the theo- logical or monastic students, and as bringing them under a more efficient discipline. The episcopal colleges for theological stu- dents seem to have been first established in the palaces of the bishops, and afterwards in buildings specially erected for them in the neighbourhood of the palaces.