Mr. Morley made a second speech at Brechin on Wednesday,
much of which was an eloquent denunciation of waste on war, but it contained an incidental explanation of some interest. Speaking with the authority of a trustee of the Fund, Mr. Morley said that Mr. Carnegie had given two millions insecurities, producing 2104,000 a year. Half this income is to be expended to strengthen the Universities of Scotland in the faculties of science and medicine, history, modern languages, and literature, while the remainder will be devoted to paying the class fees of such Scottish students, male or female, as the fees now debar from attendance. The ancient languages will be left out, an omission against which Mr. Morley eloquently protests, on the ground that human nature is no mean part of the field of education, and that the old sages were masters in it. This, it will be observed, differs greatly from the scheme as originally reported, and, in fact, is open only to the objection that the struggle to find means for oneself helps to make character. It is charity, after all, that the students will be receiving, unless they are to win their allowances as they win other bursaries.
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