The University of Nalanda c13.63

c13.63

Circumstances, however, were different in Europe. The student paid fees in Europe and so we meet with a strange spectacle of a touting Master visiting a freshman, “anxious to secure the new-comer for his own Hall or lecture room.”[2] Instead of a student approaching the Master we find the Master going out in search of students. And the contrast cannot be more striking than when we read that “In the matter of lectures, indeed, a trial was respectfully solicited with all the accommodating obsequiousness of a modern tradesman.”[3]