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Excerpt from Votiva Tabella: A Memorial Volume of St. Andrews University in Connection With Its Quincentenary Festival, MCCCCXI-MDCCCCXI
In Part II the attempt is made to Show what part St Andrews has taken in that great transformation of learning, which is one of the principal glories of the present age. As each Of the great studies has undergone renewal, our University has not stayed behind, but has bestirred herself, so far as her resources allowed, to take her place in the advance. Partly by the aid of Government, partly by the generosity of her private friends, she has increased her staff, added new buildings and equipments, Opened up new lines Of study and research, improved in manifold ways the position both of her teachers and her students.
Part III, while it includes one or two studies in serious biography, is in great part devoted to the less severe forms of literary composition. Appreciations of St Andrews from various points of view, some in prose and others in verse, have been contributed by representatives from Old and new generations of alumni; and we are indebted to honorary graduates of the University and to Others connected with her by various ties for imaginative work, in poetry and in prose, that was no less willingly Offered than gladly accepted.
We hope that the decorative treatment of this volume will enhance its interest in the eyes of our friends. We thankfully acknowledge the generous services of those to whom we are indebted for the emblematic cover, the heraldic frontispiece, and the twenty illustrations which are scattered through the pages of this book.
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