Excerpt from The Story of the University of Edinburgh During Its First Three Hundred Years, Vol. 1 of 2

This book was undertaken in honour of the Ter centenary of the University of Edinburgh, in order that any one who cared might be able to know by what steps the University has arrived at its present position.

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