stackyFACTSThe first higher education institutions possessed no physical campuses, libraries, or dormitories. They were literally just guilds of freelance lecturers and students who would regularly strike, riot, and threaten to pack up and move to a different town entirely if the local merchants dared to overcharge them for cheap ale and terrible food.
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