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end merely in the teaching of new laws, or the gratification 

 of their imagination, or in any of those little accompaniments 

 which belong to such occasions, but that they would result in 

 high moral and intellectual profit, and not only make them 

 wise in the knowledge of this world, but in wisdom of a still 

 higher kind, so that it might produce fruit which, by the 

 blessing of God, might enable them to meet hereafter in a 

 place where the regret of parting would be unknown, and 

 where they would live for ever, and in happiness — (applause.)^ 



Major Rawlinson seconded the motion, and remarked that, 

 as a lover of science, he yielded to none in his admiration of 

 that great and splendid educational establishment, the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh — an establishment which, if its merits 

 were tested by the number of great men who had been trained 

 within its walls, including, in the present day, Lord Brougham, 

 the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John 

 Russell, — it would yield to no other University, not only in 

 Great Britain, but in the world — (applause.) 



Principal Lee said, — It happens very inopportunely that I 

 am present on this occasion, and therefore can hardly avoid 

 the duty, as being at present the Chairman of the University, 

 of returning thanks for the compliment which has been paid 

 us, in terms so eloquent that it would be vain for me to 

 attempt to rival them. Facts have been referred to by the 

 able and accomplished gentleman who made the motion, to 

 which, if your time were not so valuable, I would very wil- 

 lingly advert, namely, the illustrious names which have shed 

 glory on this country. Your chairman and myself had the 

 good fortune to study at the University of Edinburgh at a 

 time when Black, Dugald Stewart, Playfair, and a great many 

 other distinguished names carried on the instructions of the 

 different departments ; but though I claim no share in the 

 credit which has been rendered to the University of Edin- 

 burgh, I think myself entitled to say that, in point of zeal, 

 energy, and efficiency, both in investigating the foundations 

 of science, and in adding to its domains, and in the various 

 branches of literature — the different faculties (medicine and 

 law in particular) never had the advantage of abler or more 

 efficient teachers — (applause) — and I am sure that those who 

 now study within the walls of our University will be quite 



