Excerpt from Address to the Students of the University of Edinburgh: Delivered on 28th October, 1884 But what I want now to bring out and emphasise is, that the general body of the students of this University appeared at the Festival, and on other occasions during the year, no longer as a fortuitous concurrence of atoms, but in some respects as an organic body - self-organised; no longer inarticulate, but provided with the means of constitutionally expressing its ideas and its wants, and exhibiting, as M. Rivier observed, ...
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Excerpt from Address to the Students of the University of Edinburgh: Delivered on 28th October, 1884 But what I want now to bring out and emphasise is, that the general body of the students of this University appeared at the Festival, and on other occasions during the year, no longer as a fortuitous concurrence of atoms, but in some respects as an organic body - self-organised; no longer inarticulate, but provided with the means of constitutionally expressing its ideas and its wants, and exhibiting, as M. Rivier observed, considerable savm'r aire, or practical ability. This is a most remarkable innovation. I hail it as the most important achievement of this year - as the first striking feature of the new epoch which we are now inaugurating. I look upon your new constitution, if I may call it so, as destined to have happy results, and to change in many respects the character of student-life not only here, but in the other Universities of Scotland, who will certainly copy what has been done and will be done here. When I speak of student-life, I must not forget that one of the German news papers pronounced that there was no student-life at Edinburgh. Why, it said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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