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Show Ancient European Universities. While Harvard was dedicating Hh new medical school buildings tho University Uni-versity of Abeideen was celebrntlng the four hundredth anniversary of its foundation. I 'our hundred yearn seems a most respectable antiquity to Amer leans, but iu reality Aberdeen Is among tho younger of the distinguished distin-guished Kuiopean universities. .liiBt when Cambridge whs founded Is a question for antliu.irlans lo settle, but even If wo doubt tin accuracy of the 'statement Una it dates na an organ-' ivted .seat of learning from the yeai 135 wo know that It was the resort ol scholars In thoso dim. dark da), whose records me scanty chronicles. Oxford claims moiv than 1,000 years of' authentic history, and tho Univcr alty of Paris aseeits seniority over Oxford. Bologna is almost twice the age of Aberdeeu. |