Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students, divided as follows: Fellows, s; graduate students, 54; academic, 379, and scientific 86. Of these New Jersey and Pennsylvania each contribute 105, New York 83, Ohio 36, Kentucky 21, Maryland 20, the District of Columbia 15, Illinois 14, and other states smaller numbers. Bulgaria, India, the Sandwich Islands, Scotland, and the West Indies each send one. These students are instructed by 39 Professors and Tutors...
...sacred to the royal and ancient game of golf, while there is an intellectual tone about the society of the place which Mr. Lowell will find thoroughly congenial. Besides the university, St. Andrew's boasts the possession, in the Madras College, of one of the best public schools in Scotland, whose masters are not less distinguished for learning than the professor of the senior establishment. On the other hand St. Andrew's is likely to be not less pleased with Mr. Lowell, who has made himself a great favorite in cultivated society here, and who is recognized as an orator...
...universities and colleges of Scotland differ so widely from our own that some explanation is needed of the contests over the election of "lord rector," one of which, as the cable informs us, has resulted in the elevation of James Russell Lowell, our minister to Great Britain, to the lord rector ship of St. Andrew's University. Since 1858 the Scottish universities, however differently organized before that time, have had a uniform constitution, created by the "university act." This act was referred to by Earl Selborne, who, having been asked the other day whether Mr. Lowell was eligible...
...Scotland, instead of public schools there are parochial schools. The university is in a city where the students, poor, live by their wits, living scattered about as our freshmen are obliged to do. Instruction is given mainly in lectures, examinations are lenient...
...James R. Lowell is candidate for the Rectorship of St. Andrews University, Scotland. His opponent is Mr. W H. Mallock, the author, who is at present the favorite...