- The people of Dundee are anxious to establish a
College in their town to be affiliated to the University of St. Andrew. A large sum (£130,000), it is said, has been promised for this object, and the only serious dispute is whether the College shall be, as Mr. Knight advises, a special College for scientific and modern instruction, or shall be an ordinary College which, if it succeeds, will empty St. Andrew's of its Dundee pupils. The balance of opinion would appear to be in favour of Mr. Knight's plan, which is obviously the wiser, as it gives to Dundee lads additional means of special instruction, whereas there seems to be no reason why, under Dr. Watson's scheme, Dundee lads should not go to St. Andrew's, where the staff of professors is just now sin- gularly strong. It was hinted in the course of a great meeting held on Wednesday to promote the College that it might develope into a University, but the passion for new and local Universities is a great mistake. The Dundee men had much better strengthen St. Andrew's by the addition of an affiliated scientific College than try to remove it,—an end about as sensible as removing the ruins of St. Mary's. The Scotch Oxford may die of inanition, but it cannot be transplanted.
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