[479] was that the university ^ais a community. Universitas, universum, which always means a unity of many, [of men?] is a unity in terms of a community, namely of teachers and students who, together, establish the university as a corporation, whereby the word "corporation" originally meant what the word says, a real body, with limbs, and not what it means today, a legal place where trade is performed. But it really meant something of a being-together, of having to decide, in community of life. Then it became applied to the subject matter, and the word got the connotation of universitas litterarum, the university of everything which is taught there: ALL things worth learning and studying are given in the

universitas. That is a different meaning, not from those who are the BEARERS of the university, but from the point of view of the content. There was also a term sometimes used, studium generale, a study, a place and content, which is general, which is valid for everybody from every country of the Western world, at that period of history. So it is from the very beginning a unity of different elements, and I will

distinguish, when we look at the present-day university^b, three functions which are decisive: 1) teaching^c; 2) education^d; 3) research^e. The confusion of these three functions and their necessary interdependence raises many of the problems which belong to the problem of the university. So if you discuss problems of THIS university, for instance, always keep in mind that it is said to have these three functions. It's not ONLY an