An interesting review of the "Rise and Early Constitutions of Universities" has appeared in the last number of the Nation. According to the view of the author, until the fourteenth century there were no conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion of the manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university, while the Divinity School is merely an important factor, but no more. The same is true with the older institutions. and it is only at a comparatively recent date that institutions of learning are founded and endowed in the true sense of a university