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| | Come the Millennium, Where the University? |
 | | At the beginning of the 12th century, Irnerius taught Roman law at Bologna and, by the middle of the century, Paris had emerged as a center for logic and theology. |
 | | The emergence of the western university, beginning roughly with the second millennium AD and associated first with Bologna, Paris, Montpellier, Oxford, and a few other cities is indeed a millenarian phenomenon that, while it has not led to the rule of saints, has contributed much to the improvement of the human condition. |
 | | Especially the quest for "applications," for research that is "targeted," has been pressed on universities from the beginning of the millennium to the American land-grant universities of the 19th century and, of course, contemporary views worldwide that universities should be engines for economic progress. |
| www.stanford.edu /dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/950418millennium.html (6359 words) |
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