EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your editorial of yesterday contains an error for which the learned author and the reviewer of Lawrie's "Rise and Early Constitution of Universities" are responsible. Your editorial approves of the statement that "until the fourteenth century there was no conscious founding of universities." This is an error; for thirteen of the twenty-six universities that existed in the year 1300 were consciously founded as studia generalia, the mediaeval conception of the modern university. Three of the eleven Italian universities that existed in the beginning of the fourteenth century were conscious foundations: Naples in 1224, Rome in 1244, Piacenza in 1248.

At the same time in France three of the six universities were consciously founded: Toulouse in 1229, Montpellier in 1239, and Pamiers in 1295.

The six Spanish universities were also conscious foundations: Palenia in 1212, Salamanca in 1243, Valenzia in 1245, Sevilla in 1254, Alcata in 1293, Lerida in 1300.

In Portugal, the University of Lisbon-Coimbra was similarly founded.

J.