Leonard's, was rather monastic. The
Reformation caused violent changes; all through these troubled ages
the new doctrines, and then the violent Presbyterian pretensions to
clerical influence in politics, and the Covenant and the Restoration
and Revolution, kept busy the dwellers in what should have been
`quiet collegiate cloisters.' St. Leonard's was more extreme, on
Knox's side, than St. Salvator's, but was also more devoted to King
James in 1715. From St. Andrews Simon Lovat went to lead his
abominable old father's clan, on the Prince Regent's side, in 1745.
Golf and archery, since the Reformation at least, were the chief
recreations of the students, and the archery medals bear all the
noblest names of the North, including those of Argyll and the great
Marquis of Montrose. Early in the present century the old ruinous
college buildings of St. Salvator's ceased to be habitable, except
by a ghost! There is another spectre of a noisy sort in St.
Leonard's. The new buildings are mere sets of class-rooms, the
students live where they please, generally in lodgings, which they
modestly call bunks.
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