Charles Homer Haskins reminds us: “In all these matters, we are the heirs and successors, not of Athens and Alexandria, but of Paris (c. 1200) and Bologna (1088).” We stand in the tradition of the medieval “gilds of masters and students, universitas societas magistrorum discipulorumque…The fundamental organization is the same, the historic continuity is unbroken. They created the university tradition of the modern world, that common tradition which belongs to all our institutions of higher learning, the newest as well as the oldest, and which all college and university men should know and cherish.” ~ The Rise of Universities (1923)