The faculties of arts, law and medicine, which were founded the earliest, steadily developed under the objective of achieving a style of their own while not being outdone by their counterparts in Europe.
墨大最早成立的文、法及醫學院，就都在這種希望擁有自己風貌，又不甘對歐陸「示弱」的情況下穩定發展。