Many of the monastic colleges had very large numbers of students.
There were sub-associations, fraternities, tradesmen's associations in the communes, and colleges in the universities.
No people can be prosperous and happy without a stable government, schools and colleges and the influences that are uplifting.
All this was anticipated in Ireland more than a thousand years ago; for a similar custom existed in some of the old Irish colleges.
"That being the case, I will modify my suggestion somewhat and send the idea to President Taylor of Vassar and other heads of women's colleges.
The modern college for women only feebly reproduces it, since the college for women has arisen at a time when colleges in general are under a cloud.
Certainly there seemed little harmony between this pagan literature and the mediaeval colleges at Christminster, that ecclesiastical romance in stone.
I must save money, and I will; and one of those colleges shall open its doors to me--shall welcome whom now it would spurn, if I wait twenty years for the welcome.
Irish professors and teachers were in those times held in such estimation that they were employed in most of the schools and colleges of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
As for the numerous Continental schools and colleges in which Irishmen figured either as principals or professors, it would be impossible, with our limited space, to notice them here.