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Thus over the first period of ten years and nine 

 months, up to soth September 1913, covered by the first 

 two quinquennial and interim distributions, in Edinburgh 

 62 per cent, and 15 per cent, and in Glasgow 67 per cent 

 and 19 per cent of the total sums received were allocated 

 by the Trustees to what have been termed the primary 

 and ancillary objects respectively. The remaining 23 

 per cent and 14 per cent, in the two institutions have 

 gone mainly to the maintenance of the libraries and other 

 purposes in which the two sides share more or less in- 

 definitely. In neither institution was any money given 

 definitely to benefit what have been termed the classical 

 group of studies. 



If this had been the interpretation adopted generally, 



and subsequently to 1913, by the Carnegie Trustees, 



certainly no one would have been disposed to criticise 



them, or submit the legality of their operations to the 



test of the powers responsible for the observance of the 



Trust Laws of Scotland. Neither would there have been 



any disposition to examine with a microscope the exact 



apportioning of the moneys between the two sides. If 



they had secured a broad common-sense distribution 



among the primary and ancillary objects, the gift was 



handsome enough in amount not to necessitate the making 



of fine distinctions. But this interpretation has not been 



followed, either universally, or subsequently to 1913. In 



the University of Aberdeen for the whole period up to 



30th September 1918, covering the first three quinquennial 



and interim distributions, only 23 per cent has been 



allocated to the primary object, while 46 per cent has 



gone to the ancillary object. The maintenance of the 



Library has taken 12 per cent, and there remains 19 per 



cent. This has been allocated for the erection of new 



buildings and examination hall for Arts subjects and an 



extension of the Library, objects which, in so far as they 



are not illegitimate, are ancillary. So also, since 1913, 



it is in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The former is given 



90 per cent, of its total allocation for five years to 



