COLLEGE

is generally used tor literary pursuits, but there are colleges of surgeons, physicians, heralds, musicians, and organists. Colleges were probably first founded in the various universities of the Middle Ages. Boarding-houses were provided (chiefly by religious orders for the benefit of their own fraternity), in which the scholars lived under superintendence, and an endowment for the support of poor scholars Completed the foundation of a college. Out of this developed such colleges as those at Oxford and Cambridge.