anything could be said except it was the cheapest and roughest way in which they could rub through. That great social evils did not arise out of it he could only attribute to two things: (1) the great good sense of Scotch students, which kept most of them from falling into the license that might be expected from so uncared for a mode of living; and (2) the fact that most of them had no more money in their pockets than enabled them to pay their way. Were a body of students all in easy or affluent circumstances to be collected together he did not believe that the mode of living now practised in our Scottish Universities could last a single year. He considered the present social arrangements for students in all the Scotch Universities very far from what one would wish to see. It was to be justified only by the great poverty of the country out of which it arose. Now that Scotland could no longer be called a poor country, some better mode of housing and superintending the students should be attempted. If he were asked what he considered the ideal of University life for students he should answer: One in which the public action and teaching of the University was in full play, combined with a social life of the students in colleges where they were cared for, counselled, disciplined, and in some measure influenced by wise, considerate, and friendly tutors. All the chief and important work of teaching should be done by the University Professors. In their lecture-rooms the students of all the Colleges or Halls should meet, and from them receive that stimulus and personal impulse which come from the living voice of a really learned and enthusiastic teacher, and which is the intellectual life of a University. In the colleges should be carried on only such subordinate teaching as would enable the students to profit by professors' prelections. The college, by its usages and modes of living and regular hours, would supply that sense of discipline which youth in and even beyond their teens still need; while the friendly advice, influence, and example of a tutor, not perhaps more than ten years older than the student, would bring to his side that timely aid which often prevented a fall, and which did so much to build up the character. could not omit to mention as a further advantage that good colleges used to require that regularity of worship and religious observance which, though enforced as a college rule, was often found to be no bondage but perfect freedom, but which when left entirely to young men's free will was so apt to be neglected. He regretted to have to say 'used to require,' as though it were a thing of the past, for in many Colleges of Oxford, under the new liberal régime, the old observance of morning and evening chapel He had all but disappeared. This he could not look on but with regret. If colleges ceased to be leavened by habitual worship they lost their finest influence and must quickly deteriorate. He alluded to the cessation in St. Andrews University of an attempt to establish the college system, but stated that it was caused not by the feeling that it was not doing good but from want of funds. Having called attention to the absence in our Universities of form, ceremonial, and academic usage, he concluded by remarking that he rejoiced in the formation of the Dundee University Club. It might do much for the Universities on the one hand and for the public welfare of all this part of Scotland on the other. He believed that its members would show by their own lives, characters, and influence that a University training was no vain thing, but a solid advantage to a man in after life. Then, the members might diffuse a truer understanding and appreciation of what the Universities were. Especially they might disabuse the public mind of the prevalent fallacy that to a young man intended for trade or business a University training was useless. Whatever they felt that they had brought from their University -a wider intelligence, mental refinement, and higher aims and views of the meaning of life-whatever advantages of mind and character they had got from their University training, let them communicate them to those around who were less favoured than themselves. He trusted that the Club would long live, and grow to be a centre from which benign influences would largely emanate." INDEX ABERDEEN, Earl of-reminiscences, 198. Addresses to boys at Rugby on Sun- day evenings, 159. Albert, death of Prince, 206. Analytic method in morals, 244-250. Argyll, estimate by Duke of, 388. Aspects of Poetry, 370; letter from Ben Alder and Prince Charlie, 104; 98; reminiscences, 130; testimony Billings's Scottish Castles, 132. Biography, advice as to writing a, 227. Blue Bells, The-a poem, 399. Books, what to read, and how to read Border country, appreciation of, 260, Borrowdale, a visit to, 65, 112. Boyle, Very Rev. G. D., Dean of Salis- 345; visit to, 393. Bradley, Very Rev. G. G., Dean of Bradley, Mrs., letter from, as to death Braes of Yarrow-a poem, 19. Brown, Dr. John, of Edinburgh, letter Erskine of Linlathen, 222; friend- Burns Centenary, 200; lecture on Bush aboon Traquair, 17, 224. Butler, Rev. Dr., Master of Trinity CAMPBELL, Dr. M'Leod, influence of, 43; his work on The Nature of the -reminiscences, 380; note on memo- Campbell, Rev. Donald, letter to, on receiving copy of his father's Re- 156; Miscellanies: essay on Edward Catholicity, his, 288. Celtic scholarship, 299. Character studies of his friends- Dr. M'Leod Campbell, 305. Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, 216. Professor Ferrier, 372. Bishop Patteson, 91. Charles XII., prize poem on, 39; Charlie, interest in haunts of Prince, Child's grave at Rugby-letter to Classics, appreciation of the, 188. Clough, Arthur H., as poet and Coleridge, influence of, 14, 208; con- Coleridge, Hartley, 33, 71, 73. on Keble, 266; another, 267; letter Coleridge, Sara, letter to Dr. John College Hall, St. Andrews, 100, 189; College Hospital, St. Andrews-Shairp's Columba, St., paper in Good Words on, Combe Abbey, visit to, 115. Cotterill, C. C., of Fettes College, re- Cotton, Bishop-estimate of, 119; close Cuckoo, The-authorship of, 312; letter Cuil-aluinn built, 306; letter to Dr. DALRYMPLE, Sir Charles, reminiscences Dalwhinnie, 104. Davey, Sir Horace-pupil at Rugby, "Decade, The," 139, 411. Derry, Bishop of, in Oxford Chair of Donach Ban's Songs, 258, 367. fellow-student, 13, 34; letter to, on Douglas, Col. Hugh M., Shairp's brother- English school system, appreciation of, "Enterkin, The," of Dr. John Brown, Ericht, Loch, visit to, 104; lines on, 104; Thomas Arnold's account of Erskine of Linlathen, influence of, 43, Evans, Charles, master at Rugby, 130, FARRAR, Prof., of Durham, pulpit Ferrier, Prof., 190, 272; estimate of, Ferrier, Mrs., 191. Fichte, study of, 111. Fishwife's Advice to her Bairn, 237. |