The Quincentenary of St. Andrews, the oldest of the Scots
universities, has been fittingly celebrated this week. On Tuesday 200 delegates from more than 100 universities and upwards of 40 learned societies in America and almost every country in Europe were received by the Chancellor, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and before the reception Mr. Carnegie was presented with his portrait in recognition of his services to the University and to Scots universities in general. On Wednesday there was a great academic pro- cession to the newly rebuilt town church. On Thursday Lord Rosebery was installed as Rector and delivered his address. He traced the transformation of Scotland as it would have appeared to the first Rector had he been an immortal—the supersession of violence by law, religious intolerance by edu- cation, drankenneas by temperance. Scotland rose and throve by neglect, and be saw a danger of their now becoming a spoon-fed nation. But a nation which preserved its faith in God and itself could never fail or come to an ignoble end, and for himself he was persuaded that there was a constant move- ment for the better in the world.
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