O dear St. Andrews Bay,
Winter or Spring
Gives not nor takes away
Memories that cling
All round thy girdling reefs,
That walk thy shore,
Memories of joys and griefs
Ours evermore.
`I have NOT worked for my classes this session,' he writes (1884),
`and shall not take any places.' The five or six most distinguished
pupils used, at least in my time, to receive prize-books decorated
with the University's arms. These prize-men, no doubt, held the
`places' alluded to by Murray. If HE was idle, `I speak of him but
brotherly,' having never held any `place' but that of second to Mr.
Wallace, now Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, in the Greek
Class (Mr. Sellar's). Why was one so idle, in Latin (Mr. Shairp),
in Morals (Mr. Ferrier), in Logic (Mr. Veitch)? but Logic was
unintelligible.
`I must confess,' remarks Murray, in a similar spirit of pensive
regret, `that I have not had any ambition to distinguish myself
either in Knight's (Moral Philosophy) or in Butler's.' {1}
Murray then speaks with some acrimony about earnest students, whose
motive, he thinks, is a small ambition.
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