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...delivery of Lord Rosebery's opening address at the Edinburgh University on Saturday afternoon was preceded by some very disorderly scenes. The students assembled at the Synod Hall in large numbers and behaved in a very noisy manner, throwing peas and beans, shouting, stamping and singing alternately snatches of songs and psalm tunes. A miniature pasteboard chair, placarded "The Celtic Chair," was suspended in the centre of the hall by a string stretching between the two side galleries, and proved the source of much disorder and amusement. Theatrical and circus bills were displayed from the front of the north gallery...
...take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction of all. In this way the interest of all was kept up, and there was nobody in the room whose thoughts seemed to wander from the matter...
With a mischievous but not ill-tempered manner the young gentleman continued...
...appropriate to the main purpose of the association," and to transfer "the whole or any part of its funds or property to the president or fellows of Harvard College" whenever the same can be so done as to advance the purpose for which the society is chartered, in a manner satisfactory to the association...
...last two weeks the exercises have been seriously interrupted half a dozen times by a few men coming in half a minute late. As long as the corporation see fit to inflict us with morning prayers, it behooves us to attend, when we do attend, in a gentlemanly manner. We hope that the freshmen will soon learn by experience to calculate their time to a better advantage...