Chapter I: Front Matter

THE COLVER LECTURES
IN BROWN UNIVERSITY

1923

THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES

BY

CHARLES H. HASKINS

COLVER LECTURES

HUMAN LIFE AS THE BIOLOGIST
SEES IT

BY VERNON KELLOGG

Published by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

BROWN UNIVERSITY. THE COLVER LECTURES, 1923

THE
RISE OF UNIVERSITIES

BY
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS

GURNEY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923
BY BROWN UNIVERSITY

PRINTED IN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY STUDENTS
IN THREE UNIVERSITIES
1888-1923

The Colver lectureship is provided by a fund of $10,000 presented to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Rosenberger of Chicago in memory of Mrs. Rosenberger’s father, Charles K. Colver of the class of 1842. The following sentences from the letter accompanying the gift explain the purposes of the foundation:--

“It is desired that, so far as possible, for these lectures only subjects of particular importance and lecturers eminent in scholarship or of other marked qualifications shall be chosen. It is desired that the lectures shall be distinctive and valuable contributions to human knowledge, known for their quality rather than their number. Income, or portions of income, not used for lectures may be used for the publication of any of the lectures deemed desirable to be so published.”

Charles Kendrick Colver (1821-1896) was a graduate of Brown University of the class of 1842. The necrologist of the University wrote of him: “He was distinguished for his broad and accurate scholarship, his unswerving personal integrity, championship of truth, and obedience to God in his daily life. He was severely simple and unworldly in character.”

The lectures now published in this series are:--

1916

_The American Conception of Liberty and Government_, by Frank Johnson
Goodnow, LL.D., President of Johns Hopkins University.

1917

_Medical Research and Human Welfare_, by W. W. Keen, M.D., LL.D.
(Brown), Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia.

1918

_The Responsible State: A Reëxamination of Fundamental Political
Doctrines in the Light of World War and the Menace of Anarchism_,
by Franklin Henry Giddings, LL.D., Professor of Sociology and the
History of Civilization in Columbia University; sometime Professor
of Political Science in Bryn Mawr College.

1919

_Democracy: Discipline: Peace_, by William Roscoe Thayer.

1920

_Plymouth and the Pilgrims_, by Arthur Lord.

1921

_Human Life as the Biologist Sees It_, by Vernon Kellogg, Sc.D.,
LL.D., Secretary, National Research Council; sometime Professor in
Stanford University.

1922

_The Rise of Universities_, by Charles H. Haskins, Ph.D., LL.D.,
Litt.D., Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Dean of
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in Harvard University.

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