in lodgings, which they
modestly call _bunks_. There is a hall for dinners in common; it is part
of the buildings of the Union, a new hall added to an ancient house.

It was thus to a university with ancient associations, with a _religio
loci_, and with more united and harmonious student-life than is customary
in Scotland, that Murray came in 1881. How clearly his biographer
remembers coming to the same place, twenty years earlier! how vivid is
his memory of quaint streets, grey towers, and the North Sea breaking in
heavy rollers on the little pier!

Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the
archery medal, I boast myself _Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus_, I
am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.
Andrews. In my time, a small set of 'men' lived together in what was
then St. Leonard's Hall. The buildings that remain on the site of Prior
Hepburn's foundation, or some of them, were turned into a hall, where we
lived together, not scattered in _bunks_. The existence was mainly like
that of pupils of a private tutor; seven-eighths of private tutor to one-
eighth of a college in the English universities. We attended the
lectures in the University, we distinguished ourselves no more than
Murray would have approved of, and many of us have remained united by
friendship through half a lifetime.

It was a pleasant existence, and the perfume of buds and flowers in the
old gardens, hard by those where John Knox sat and talked with James
Melville and our other predecessors at St. Leonard's, is fragrant in our
memories. It was pleasant, but St. Leonard's Hall has ceased to be, and
the life there was not the life of the free and hardy bunk-dwellers.
Whoso pined for such dissipated pleasures as the chill and dark streets
of St. Andrews offer to the gay and rousing blade, was not encouraged. We
were very strictly 'gated,' though the whole society once got out of
window, and, by way of protest, made a moonlight march into the country.
We attended 'gaudeamuses' and _solatia_--University suppers--but little;
indeed, he who writes does not remember any such diversions of boys who
beat the floor, and break the glass. To plant the standard of cricket in
the remoter gardens of our country, in a region devastated by golf, was
our ambition, and here we had no assistance at all from the University.
It was chiefly at lecture, at football on the links, and in the debating
societ