Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21

school of arts seek learning. They and
their professors. tutors and fellows are
thorOuhgly convinced of Their superior
advantages and importance. The genial
old concierge who showed us around told
us Kings College was still the real thing,
while the new building down in New Abb
erdeen was paryenu affair that did not
deserve much notice. On the other hand.
at the new buildings we We're informed
that Kings was a venerable but rather
insignificant institution. and unless we
had plenty of time it would scarcely pay
us to make 1t a visit.
Kings College Renaissance.
Nevertheless both institutions a-e sup
posed to be working in peace and har-
mony as Kings College and Marischal
College composing together the University
of Aberdeen. All public functions take
place in the, splendid hall in the new
building The executive offices are also
there: degrees are conferred there. and
in the evolution of the twins Kings
College is becoming more and more of a
"Reminiscences and Marfschal more and
more of a progressive, modern factory FOR
turning out DOCTORS lawyers, agricul-
turalists and engineers.
Kings College. however, is dear old
place. full of ripe, rich beauty rs well
as "reminiscences. AS ii stands today II
is only relic of the enormous institu-
ton which Elphinstone founded like a
master builder with a large library. a
palace where the bishop resided in state,
a quadrangle where his chaplains had
chambers, manses where the professors
resided and cloisters that for two hun
dred years were crowded with students
from all parts of Scotland. All this eN-
cept two rather small buildings and the
chanel has passed away. The buildings
have been destroyed by fanatics on both
sides of theological controversies which
have occupied them in turn. and each fac
ton has endeavored to ruin them while
the other was in power.
Taught Theology Both Ways.
Aberdeen is not the only city that has
had two universities Washington has
three Each of the institutions here has
records that are unique in several re-
spects Marischal, for example, was the
first university in the United Kingdom
ia establish a faculty of medicine. There
were no medical professorsships at Cam
bridge until 1910, nor at Oxford until 1I46
Both institutions have gone from one
extreme to the other in theology and
have taught in turn the infallibility of
the pope and the infallibility of John
Calvin and John Knox. They have used
both the methods of Rome and of Geneva
to lead the people of Scotland out of the
darkness of theological ignorance, but
now the Synod of Aberdeen determines
the brand of the theology used there.
Shortly after the reformation, when the
universities were ''rghted by John
Knox and his associates the students
were given very large doses of the prln-
ciples of Christianity as understood by
the Presbyterian divines- They had
prayers and read the Scriptures in the
Greek version four times day. and the
nresidine professor expounded the lessons
to be drawn therefrom. Sermons of in
ordinate length were delivered Sunday
after Sunday. but that was the rule all over
Scotland where the thought of the sew
enteenth century was exclusively the
illogical and the intellect of the people
was monopolized by the pulpit. Some
times Rev John Mendies. professor of
divinity during the latter part of the sew
enteenth century. .'keipet churche all
day." hammering the heads of the stu
dents and the members of the faculty
with gospel weapons and with such fer
vor that his entire clothing would be