In 1881 he entered at the University of St.
Andrews, with a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester
New College. This he resigned not long after, as he had abandoned
the idea of becoming a Unitarian minister.
No longer a schoolboy, he was now a Bejant (bec jaune?), to use the
old Scotch term for `freshman.' He liked the picturesque word, and
opposed the introduction of `freshman.' Indeed he liked all things
old, and, as a senior man, was a supporter of ancient customs and of
esprit de corps in college. He fell in love for life with that old
and grey enchantress, the city of St. Margaret, of Cardinal Beaton,
of Knox and Andrew Melville, of Archbishop Sharp, and Samuel
Rutherford. The nature of life and education in a Scottish
university is now, probably, better understood in England than it
used to be. Of the Scottish universities, St. Andrews varies least,
though it varies much, from Oxford and Cambridge. Unlike the
others, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, the United College of St.
Leonard and St. Salvator is not lost in a large town. The College
and the Divinity Hall of St.
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