Rectorial addresses delivered at the University of St. Andrews : Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, bart., to the Marquess of Bute, 1863-1893 / edited with an introduction by William Knight.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Rectorial addresses delivered at the University of St. Andrews : Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, bart., to the Marquess of Bute, 1863-1893 / edited with an introduction by William Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Eector, by 73 votes; over Professor Huxley, who had 70. He was installed on the 14th day of February 1873. His visit to St. Andrews was marked by no special incident; but I well remember how, as the rectorial procession wended - its way up the narrow passage, or extemporised alley in the Library, to the dais where the address was to be delivered, 'mid showers of peas thrown right and left by the students even at that stage of the proceedings, the ever humorous Eector turned round to the Vice-Chancellor, and said, This is just a pis-alley. Lord Neaves's address was full of wisdom. It almost seemed as if the flaming torch had been handed on to him by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. Kafitraha e^ovre? BtaBcocrova-iv aXk7]XoL^. ■ Dean Stanley had been an occasional visitor to St. Andrews, long before his election to the Eectorial Chair; and he loved the place, and much connected with it, as few men have done. It was he who called it the Oxford of the NortL He was elected on the 26 th of November 1874; by 70 votes over Lord Salisbury, who had 66. His inaugural address, given on the 31st of March 1875, and published at the time as a pamphlet, was reprinted two years later under the title of The Study of Greatness, in his volume of Sermons and Addresses Delivered at St. Andrews. It is a singularly interesting study of the influence of the con- templation of Greatness, whether embodied in Institutions, in Men, in Ideas, or in Deeds. The effect of this address is admirably described by Principal Shairp, in a letter to Lady Augusta Stanley, who had been unable to accompany her husband to St. Andrews :— Durin- his tliree days here he ^vas at his brightest and best, with but one thing wanting to make all perfect-yonr presence. In his address on Wednesday he surpassed himself, or rather I should say that he was at his very best. I put his address alongside of that