There is a hall for dinners in common; it is
part of the buildings of the Union, a new hall added to an ancient
house.
It was thus to a university with ancient associations, with a
religio loci, and with more united and harmonious student-life than
is customary in Scotland, that Murray came in 1881. How clearly his
biographer remembers coming to the same place, twenty years earlier!
how vivid is his memory of quaint streets, grey towers, and the
North Sea breaking in heavy rollers on the little pier!
Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the
archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus,
I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in
St. Andrews. In my time, a small set of `men' lived together in
what was then St. Leonard's Hall. The buildings that remain on the
site of Prior Hepburn's foundation, or some of them, were turned
into a hall, where we lived together, not scattered in bunks. The
existence was mainly like that of pupils of a private tutor; seven-
eighths of private tutor to one-eighth of a college in the English
universities.
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