The Three Hundredth Anniversary of the University of Edinburgh

Abstract

THIS week the University of Edinburgh is holding its Tercentenary Festival. An elaborate programme of festivities is being gone through by a collection of guests of literary, scientific, and social eminence such as rarely graces a British or even any foreign University seat. A mere recital of the list of those who are to be present to receive honorary degrees would be interesting, as showing the scope and catholicity of modern University culture. We see Hermite, Helmholtz, Pasteur, Haeckel, Virchow, Browning, Renan, Bishop Lightfoot, and Principals Tulloch and Rainy, capped by the same academic hand.