The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-15
Please give the meaning OF Sorbonno
and historically SO if 1t. warranted.

Please give the meaning OF Sorbonno
and historically SO IL 1t warranted.
| The sorbonne Is named after Robert
de Sorbon, n native OF the little village
Sorbon near the town OF Rethei not
October 0, 1901, and studied theology
In Paris. He was successfully priest,
g 9. docto + az 9f theology and canon n
attention Of st. Louis IN. who made
him chaplain, and. 1t Is supposed. his
private confessor. Robert was so i'm
pressed BY the importance Of Theology
kind of young men studying for the
priesthood that he established socle-
" OF secular ecclestastics In 1867. with
hs ea e the Sing the nstu
account of this act will be OF interest
to you:
"From It's origin until the present
time the Sorbonnc has been the centre
French Revolution 1t was recognized
as especially the seat OF Theological
learning, The faculty pronounced
their opinions on the most important
cognized as OF great authority. The
reader need only consult the History
OF France by Henri Martin, to discover
many illustrations of this statement
Inc ldCulty lUtcTNeneu IN the tF1at OF
Jeanne d Arc; 1T condemned the views
of Luther and showed great hostility
towards reformers: censured many
noteworthy books and writer's: oppos-
ed the Cartesian philosophy. and adj
dressed the Car in regard to reun-
ion of the Greek and Latin churches.
Among the books which 1t condemned
We're the treatise of Helvetius. DE ri5s-
prit. the fourth volume of Buttons
Natural History and Rousseau's Emile
Among rlD
It's announcement of printing In
France, by giving quarters for their
presses to llric Gering and other car
~ printers. The buildings of the Sor-
bonnie were reconstructed at the be-
ginning OF the seventeenth century
by Richelieu, who merits the distinction
Of Il second founder. The church which
he caused to be hktlt at the college
ments of ecclesiastical architecture
In Paris. His tomb is there not far
from the tomb of Robert de Sorbon:
The Sorbonne was given to the city OF
century, and the construction was be-
gun of magnificent building for the
departments of science and letters.
This edifce. called La Nouvclle Sor-
bonnie. was completed in 1889, and II is
perhaps the finest university building
in the world. Its lecture rooms and
it's laboratories are we'll equipped. and
the mural decorations ESPECIALLY tbe
great picture of Puvis de Chavannes)
are OF rare beauty. In the transition
from the old to the new Sorbonne NJ
Greard published noteworthy pam
phlet entitled Nos Adieux a la vicille
Sorbonne.' The changes in the interior
and administration due to the progress
of science and 10 the Increase of funds
are too complex for presentation here.
The most radical are the disappearance,
after the, French Revolution, of the
Faculty OF Theology, which was once
the sole authority so that a Sorbon-
mist was of course g theologian, the
consequent supremacy OF literature and
science. evinced by the organization
OF tho Ecole des Hautes Etudes. and
by the founding OF libraries and sem
inaries. and likewise by the establish
ment In the immediate ne!ghborhood
of schools of medicine and law. The
faculties of science and letters OF the
University OF Paris are installed in the
Ne,,. Sarharna and .NfinerYa., for anl--