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The Noteworthy Celebration of
Aberdeen's Great University.
Interesting Letter by President VI. II
Buckham Of the University of Ner-
mont Dealing with tho
Event.

PrcSldent NJ. IL. buchanan, Whlcn WAS
delayed in the transatlantic mails, will
be read with interest by our readers
Aberdeen, Scotland Sept. 80, 1906.
My dear FREQ Press:
At the Harvard 25Oth anniversary Mr..
Lowell remarked that even this degree
OF antiquity might seem quite modern
to Europeans. Amid some jeerns, Uni
versity College. Oxford. had the audacitY
to celebrate, some years ago, it's 12oOth
anniversary, apropos OF its founding
by King Alfred. but a high oxford au-
thority affrms that mo one now believes
the Alfredian legend" Other claims to
antiquity. not SO eXtravagant. are au-
thentic. In 1911. St. Andrews University.
OF which Mr.. Carnegie is Lord Rector"
proposes to celebrate tho 500th anuiver-
sary of its founding CMay | be there to
SEED. Aberdeen, during the past week,
has been observing. with great ccldt,
what it calls its "Quater Centenary,
the 400th anniversary of its beginning.
Preparations for tho event have been
making for years past. The time is hap
PLY Coincident with the completion Of a
magnificent group Of buildings costing Il
million dollars, the gift of n few public
spirited Scotchmen, to MarsChal College
one of the two colleges constituting the
University Of Aberdeen. Scotland has
four universities, Edinboro. Glasgow, st
Andrews and Aberdeen and has long had
the relown OF sending out from these
four institutions a larger number of grad
yates in proportion to her population, than
any other country in the world. not ex-
ceptng New England and Germany. a
fact which accounts. In part, for the
pre- eminenCe of Scotchmen the world
| over, and for the exceptionally high iu-
telectual standard of the Scottish people
at home.
Aberdeen, "the Silver-Gray City by tho
Sea" IS known all over the world for
its granite. Aberdeen granite" as W.
know it in the United States, is the near
~ black polished granite we see in col
umns and slabs. As one sees it here in
buildings it is gray, very light and sill
very, when fresh, but becoming dun wher
exposed to the air and to smoke. The
new Marischal College is of the perpen-
dicular Gothic order now prevalent ir
English public buildings. usually it must
be confessed rather wearisome in It's
straight lines and endless repetitions ot
the same features, but in this instance
redeemed from commonplace by the
height and beauty of the central tower
and by the great number OF pinnaCles
and crOckets. Like the cathedrals o.
continental cities, it lifts the crown Of
beauty above miles and miles of streets
and shops and dwellings. and. at leas
so long as it retains its silver gray aspect
Will add a hitherto lacking charm to the
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