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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 

 connected 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 

 Regius chairs. You do not care to make your 

 University a school of manners for the rich ; of 

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

 hypercritical refinement, more destructive to vigour 

 and originality than are starvation and oppression. 

 No ; your little Bursaries of ten and twenty (I 

 believe even fifty) pounds a year, enabled any boy 

 who has shown ability in the coiirse of his education 

 in those remarkable primary schools, which have 

 made 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 has had his 



