History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883–1933

Abstract

THIS volume gives the record of fifty years of work in an old university—the youngest, and yet in some respects the greatest, of the Scottish universities. Its most intimate appeal must therefore be to the multitude of the teachers and alumni who have passed and repassed the great gateways during the seventh of the inter-jubilee periods. Yet in that period wide problems of university finance and procedure and progress have arisen and been solved, or have been launched on the way to solution. Questions of interest, or even of gravity, regarding the wisdom or unwisdom of steps taken, push themselves into consideration; and, with institutions as with individuals, it is the sign of the sum total which matters. On the credit side at least the total is never fully known, “But, all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account, All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as the work, yet swelled the whole amount,” were of positive value though they can have no visible place in this volume.

History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883–1933.

Edited on behalf of the History Committee by Dr. A. Logan Turner Pp. xxxi + 452 + 26 plates. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1933.) 10s. net.