BRIDGE, UNIVERSITY OF; OXFORD; PARIS, UNIVER SITY OF, etc.
In this relation, the college becomes a sub corporation. The English universities hold the examinations and grant the degrees, while the colleges provide for the lodging of the students, to a certain extent for their support, and for their instruction. Students in one college may receive instruction in other colleges. In Scotland and in America the distinction between the col lege as the member and the university as the body has been neglected ; and we consequently hear of the one and the other indiscriminately granting degrees, a function which in the Eng lish and in the original European view of the matter belonged exclusively to the university. Barnard College, Columbia, and Sibley College, Cornell, however, besides many correlated pro fessional colleges, may be said to illustrate the older usage. Where there is but one college in a university, as is the case in the universities of Scotland, the two bodies are of course identical, though the functions which they perform are dif ferent. The University of Dublin and Trinity
College are also virtually the same. In Ger many there are no colleges in the English sense: and the verbal confusion between the college and the university is avoided by the latter's perform ing the functions of both in its own name, as two separate parts of its proper duties. In France, cotif.fie has a meaning totally different from that which we attach to the word; it is a school, corresponding, however, more to the gymnasia (q.v.) of Germany than to the grammar schools of this country. All the colleges are placed un der the University of France, to which the cen tralizing tendencies of that country have given a meaning which also differs widely from that which the term university bears in England. See also COEDUCATION ; COLLEGES, AMERICAN; COL LEGIATE EDUCATION FOR WOMEN; DEGREE; DUB LIN, UNIVERSITY OF; EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY; HARVARD UNIVERSITY; SORBONNE; YALE UNIVER