FACULTY

(In the Universities.) In the origin of the university of Paris (which is considered as the model of all European institutions in the middle ages) the seven liberal arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, a strode mic no my, and instruction.music) seem These to constituted have been what the subjects was afterwards of acai.iited the Faculty of Arts. Three other faculties— Iboee of divinity, law, and medicine — were subsequently ail led In all these four lectures were given, and degrees < [erred by the university. The four faculties were transplanted to Oxford and Cambridge, where they are still relainuii: although, in point of fact, the faculty of arts is the only one in which subs tanti a] instruction is communicated in 111o academical course. By an anomaly of ancient date, tin' English universities also give degrees in what is not properly a faculty, but only a branch of one of the faculties, viz. music. On the Continent, the faculty of arts is synonymous with that of philosophy. In England, that of divinity is not wholly distinct from, but superior to, that of arts; degrees in the latter being preliminary qualifications for those in the former. FACULTY, [s. 455]