ABSTRACT
A university is a number of people engaged in a certain sort of activity: the Middle Ages called it Studium; we may call it "the pursuit of learning". What distinguishes a university is a special manner of engaging in the pursuit of learning. A university, moreover, is a home of learning, a place where a tradition of learning is preserved and extended, and where the necessary apparatus for the pursuit of learning has been gathered together. Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation and the world benefiting, perhaps, from their writings. For about 400 years in England the education of the would-be scholar and of the man of the world has been the same, and this tradition belongs to our idea of a university.
