What is a University?

IN a speech at Maharaja's College, Mysore, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu drew a contrast between the Universities in the West and Universities in India. "We in India have too long associated the idea of a University with three or four of the best years of heavy, gloomy, wearying work, the net result of which at the end of the period may be contained in a role of parchment, a mere representation of our money value. But the true  conception of a University, like that of Oxford, of which every Oxford man was so proud, or Cambridge of which she was so proud, or Edinburgh of which her husband was so proud, or Universities of France, of Germany, of Italy, made a University the embodiment, the living symbol of the glorious dreams of youth."