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primitive model; but I cannot help thinking that 

 the northern form has remained more faithful to 

 its original, not only in constitution, but, what is 

 more to the purpose, in view of the cry for change, 

 in the practical application of the endowments con- 

 nected with it. 



In Aberdeen, these endowments are numerous, 

 but so small that, taken altogether, they are not 

 equal to the revenue of a single third-rate English 

 college. They are scholarships, not fellowships; 

 aids to do work — not rewards for such work as it 

 lies within the reach of an ordinary, or even an 

 extraordinary, young man to do. You do not 

 think that passing a respectable examination is a 

 fair equivalent for an income, such as many a 

 grey-headed veteran, or clergyman would envy; 

 and which is larger than the endowment of many 

 Eegius chairs. You do not care to make your 

 University a school of manners for the rich; of 

 sports for the athletic; or a liot-bed of high-fed, 

 hypercritical refinement, more destructive to vig- 

 our and originality than are starvation and op- 

 pression. No; your little Bursaries of ten and 

 twenty (T believe even fifty) pounds a year, en- 

 abled any boy who has shown ability in the course 

 of his education in those remarkable primary 

 schools, which have ma,de Scotland the power she 

 is, to obtain the highest culture the country can 

 give him; and when he is armed and equipped, 

 his Spartan Alma Mater tells him that, so far, he 



