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Thus over the first period of ten years and nine 

 months, up to 3Oth 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 

 3<Dth 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 



