Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-08

That tall, ungainly figure, resembling that
of an overgrown schoolboy, belongs to Prof:
Sellar. an elegant scholar of the Oxford
type, and well known to the learned world
by his criticisms OF the Roman poets. The
young man beside him, with the classic face
and dark mustache. is Prof. Butcher, in the
chair of Greek. His prose translation of the
Odyssey, executed in collaboration with An
drew Lang, is the most vivid and delightful
of all the English renderings of the great
epic.
His classroom is right under that of the
professor of Logic-Campbell Fraser-and
the noise and tramping OF feet which seem
not inconsistent with the pursuit of the art
of reasoning sometimes disturb the academic
repose of the Greek grove. On one of these
occasions the noise became intolerable.
Butcher closed his book, abruptly saying,
Gentlemen, Prof. Fraser's conclusions do
not seem to agree with our premises" Be
youd Butcher we see the pugnacious, SELL
assertiye face of Henry Calderwood, once a
q. P. clergyman. aud now professor OF Moral
Philosophy.
A GREAT PHYSICIST.
Beside him sits Peter Guthrie TAFT, pro-
fessor of Natural Philosophy, and one OF
the authors of The Unseen Universe. In
orpearance he is a modern Roger Bacon or
Michael Scott, of Balwearie. He is Ger
tainly one of the greatest physicists of the
6ay. but in everything outside of the selen-
tifc sphere he is wonderfully narrow
minded and bigoted. His neighbor, Prot.
CRYSTAL. holds the Mathematical chair. de
has been called "The Diferential Calculus
in SpectacleS. ..
When the medical graduates come up for
presentation, the list is read out by the
Dean of that Faculty, Thomas Richard
Fraser. Professor of Materia Medica. His
delicately cut and highly intellectual
coupteuauce bespeaks a finely strung nat
ure, His reputation as the foremost phar-
macologist in Great Britain marked him
out. 10 the opinion OF the scientific world, as
the fttest man to succeed the lllustrlous SIr
Robert Christison in the chair he now holds.
He is one OF the most successful ana most
pleasant lecturers in the university. and his
genial and gentle nature makes him uni
versal favorite.
A AMANY-sIDED MAN.
Even in these respects he must yield the
palm to the venerable Sir Douglas Mac
Lagan. the Professor of Medical Jurispru-
dence and Police. His carefully dressed
hair and curled whiskers give the impress
sion oil man who is conscious OF the posses
sion of good looks He is in his 18th year.
His fame as the University laureate, being
author of the "Condisci Pull Canamus, a
favorite students song, will endear his name
to many generations OF students yet to come.
His most striking feature is his many-slded-
ness.
1t has been well said of him that "He is
medical man accomplished all round;
trained first as a surgeon, aiterward as
family physician and now consultant and
lecturer on clinical medicine, medical Jur-
ist, teaching the lawyer medicine and the
physician law, an expert in chemistry and
toxicology; skilled analyst, good alike for
an opinion in applied science or In trial
for murder; one of the calmest, shrewdest
and most sci respecting witnesses that ever
stood in a witness box; a musician-few
purer tenors have ever sung; a poet, an
archer OF the Body Guard, a fisherman, a
shot, telling speaker ior a good cause and
a faithful friend. He is not one man, but a
battalion"
HIGH sALARIED MEN.
In that respect MacLagan is run very
close BY Crum Brown, the professor OF Chem
istry. OF the other medical professors not
much need be said. Sir William Turner,
with a strongly developed head, sugge stive
OF the tenacity of the bulldog, is not only a
great authority on anatomy, he is also a
successful administrator and a manager oil
men. He and Prot. Crum Brown divide be-
| tween them the enviable distinction of be-
| ing the best paid men in the university, fol-
their incomes, according to recent Parlia'
mentary returns, approach very closely tc
the ga, 600 limit. Science, in their hands, Ii
evidently not a DeggarIy pursuit.
That sharp-ieatured and active little man
beside Turner is Prof. Annandale. the
| achievements of whose knife are now al
well known in America as they are in Grea
! Britain. The one outstanding figure in tn,
Faculty of Divinity is that OF Prof. Flint
who has been represented, not inappropri
ately, as champion of the Church Militant
clad in panoply of steel. He has essentially
the face of a student, lean, sallow and witt
severe, deep sunken eyes. Evidently, also
| he is not a man to be trifed with either il
philosophical or ecclesiastical controversy
1t is reported of him that when a studen
had finished trial sermon in his class ont
day, Flint said to him, "That is very gooc
practical discourse, Mr.. M, but it has nc
connection with the text.
While we have been scanning faces anC
making notes the business OF the dav has
been going forward. Now, there remain.
only the address of the Promoter to the
newly enfranchised graduates, and there.
| after short service in st. Giles Cathedral
which closes the ceremonies of an Edin.
burgh commencement.
W. SCOTT DALGLEIsH,
n II L.