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Show SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES. Taking a Prominent Part In Development Develop-ment of British Nation. Tho prlnco of Wales's visit to Glasgow Glas-gow to Inaugurate tho university extension ex-tension buildings onco moro appropriately appro-priately emphasizes tho Important part which Scottish universities aro taking In tho development of the national na-tional life. TIiIb Is tho second enlargement en-largement which OlaBgow has been compelled to 'make within half century. cen-tury. The university, too, has behind tt qulto a venerable air of antiquity, as well as tho hall-mark of modern utility. Its foundation dales back four centuries and a half, and, like, all the Scottish unlvorsltles except Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, which Is a post-reformation royal foundation, It owes Its existence to undent ecclesiastical authority. In point of ago, however, Glasgow holds only second place In Scotland's honorable hon-orable academic record. Aberdeen following Is a good third. Edinburgh enmo Into being about a century later. Hut tho oldest of tho Scottish universities univer-sities Is two centuries younger than Cambridge. As for Oxford, her academic aca-demic beginnings nro qulto lost In the hazo of Anglo-Saxon antiquity. The town was known as a seat of learning In tho year 802. Ixmdon Globe. |