ugh it varies much, from Oxford and
Cambridge. Unlike the others, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, the
United College of St. Leonard and St. Salvator is not lost in a large
town. The College and the Divinity Hall of St. Mary's are a survival
from the Middle Ages. The University itself arose from a voluntary
association of the learned in 1410. Privileges were conferred on this
association by Bishop Wardlaw in 1411. It was intended as a bulwark
against Lollard ideas. In 1413 the Antipope Benedict XIII., to whom
Scotland then adhered, granted six bulls of confirmation to the new
University. Not till 1430 did Bishop Wardlaw give a building in South
Street, the Paedagogium. St. Salvator's College was founded by Bishop
Kennedy (1440-1466): it was confirmed by Pius II. in 1458. Kennedy
endowed his foundation richly with plate (a silver mace is still extant)
and with gorgeous furniture and cloth of gold. St. Leonard's was founded
by Prior Hepburn in 1512. Of St. Salvator's the ancient chapel still
remains, and is in use. St. Leonard's was merged with St. Salvator's in
the last century: its chapel is now roofless, some of the old buildings
remain, much modernised, but on the south side fronting the gardens they
are still picturesque. Both Colleges were, originally, places of
residence for the students, as at Oxford and Cambridge, and the
discipline, especially at St. Leonard's, was rather monastic. The
Reformation caused violent changes; all through these troubled ages the
new doctrines, and then the violent Presbyterian pretensions to clerical
influence in politics, and the Covenant and the Restoration and
Revolution, kept busy the dwellers in what should have been 'quiet
collegiate cloisters.' St. Leonard's was more extreme, on Knox's side,
than St. Salvator's, but was also more devoted to King James in 1715.
From St. Andrews Simon Lovat went to lead his abominable old father's
clan, on the Prince Regent's side, in 1745. Golf and archery, since the
Reformation at least, were the chief recreations of the students, and the
archery medals bear all the noblest names of the North, including those
of Argyll and the great Marquis of Montrose. Early in the present
century the old ruinous college buildings of St. Salvator's ceased to be
habitable, except by a ghost! There is another spectre of a noisy sort
in St. Leonard's. The new buildings are mere sets of class-rooms, the
students live where they please, generally