The College calendar. [Continued as] The College calendar for the United Free Church of Scotland

taken from the various fields of Dogmatic, Exegetic, and Apologetic Theology; and the effort is made, while bestowing due attention on each of these branches of Theological Study, to allot a due place to the discussion of public questions which concern the Church.

The Society consists of Ordinary, Honorary, and Corresponding Members, who are or have been Students in attendance on any of the Theological or Hebrew Classes in the New College, and generally includes a large proportion of the Students of the College. Three Presidents are chosen annually from among the Senior Students, while the other office-bearers are chosen from the junior classes. The Presidents from Session 1868-69 have been,

1868-69. J. S. Black, M.A.

T. M. Lindsay, M.A.
J. F. Dickie.

1869-70. J. G. Kippen.

W. R. Smith, M.A.
Benj. Bell, M.A.

1870-71. J. M. Russell, M.A.
D. B. Sturrock.

R. M'Intosh.

1871-72. A. Harper, B.A. J. Matthew, M.A.

D. Patrick, M.A.

1872-73. W. G. Elmslie, M.A.

H. G. Shepherd, M.A.

Alex. Adamson, M.A.

1873-74. James Stalker, M.A. A. S. Paterson, M.A. Henry Drummond.

1874-75. Thos. Adamson, M.A. John Forgan.

Robert Forrest, M.A.

1875-76. Peter Thomson, M.A.
John Georgeson, M.A.
George Steven, M.A.

1876-77 Rich. Cameron, M.A.
David M. Ross, M.A.
Thos. Pearson, M.A.
A. D. Paterson, M.A.
David Carnegie, M.A.
Francis Gordon, M.A.

1877-78.

The Society meets every Friday evening during the session, at eight o'clock.

DINING HALL.

A Dining Hall has been established in connection with the New College. All matriculated students (¿.e., all paying the common fee of £5 or receiving, as foreigners, a free ticket) are entitled to be members for the session on payment of a moderate fee, fixed by the committee of management. Students, attending one or more classes without having matriculated, make special application to the committee. The fee for session 1876-77 was £2, 5s. Dinner is served at 2 o'clock, on all days when the classes meet. The professors preside by turns. The number of students availing themselves of this institution in Session 1876-77 was 92.

The Committee of Management are— -Professor Blaikie, Con

vener; Professor Duns; G. F. Barbour, Esq. of Bonskeid; C. B. Logan, Esq., W.S., Treasurer; Messrs Miller, Carnegie, Salmond, and Philip, Students.

With the view of making the dinner permanent, and keeping it within reach of every student, the Committee are engaged in raising £5000 as an endowment fund. Friends interested in the scheme will kindly communicate with any member of the Committee.

TUTORIAL HEBREW CLASS.

The object of this class is to put it in the power of Undergraduate Students to acquire, previous to commencing their Theological Curriculum, a knowledge of Hebrew sufficient to enable them to pass the Board Examination and to enter the Junior Hebrew Class with the necessary amount of preliminary training. Accordingly, the work of the class embraces a thorough course of instruction in the leading principles of the Grammar, the acquisition of some measure of fluency and accuracy in reading, and as much practice as possible in translating the original Hebrew. Frequent exercises are prescribed and written examinations are held at regular intervals.

The class is open to students of all denominations and is usually attended by a considerable number not belonging to the Free Church. In addition to the Winter Class which meets in the New College at 9 o'clock A.M., there is also a Summer Class held during the months of May, June and July.

The Class has been successively conducted by the following:-Theo. Meyer, Missionary to the W. R. Smith, M.A., Professor Jews in London. of Hebrew, F. C. College, Aberdeen.

A. B. Davidson, D.D., LL.D.,
Professor of Hebrew, New
College, Edinburgh.

W. Kennedy Muir, M.A., now
deceased.

James Kennedy, B.D.
W. A. Walton, B.D.

A. Harper, B.D., Melbourne.
W. G. Elmslie, M.A.
Henry G. Shepherd, M.A.
Thos. Adamson, B.D.
Peter Thomson, M.A.
Richard Cameron, M.A.

READING-ROOM.

The Common Hall of the College is converted into a ReadingRoom during the Session, for the convenience of the Students. All regular Students become members on payment of a small fee for the Session, and the arrangements are carried out by a committee of their own number. The annual meeting is held

at the close of the Session, to hear the Secretary's report, and to arrange for the supply of literature. The local as well as London and other papers, are supplied daily, and the principal magazines and reviews are also secured. This Session, about 20 newspapers-daily, bi-weekly, and weekly-have been procured; and 16 monthly and quarterly periodicals and reviews. In addition, several publications are sent to the Reading-Room, free of charge, and suitable donations of permanent interest have occasionally been received.

GYMNASIUM.

Since Session 1867, the Students have had the benefit of a Gymnasium fitted up for their use in a large room in the southeast portion of the College building. This room, furnished with the necessary apparatus, is open daily during Session, from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., closing at 2 P.M. on Saturday. The Gymnasium is under the management of a committee of eight of the Students, two representatives being annually chosen from each year. The almost nominal subscription of Sixpence from each member is found sufficient to defray the current expenses; and a considerable proportion of the students avail themselves of the privilege thus afforded.

II. Glasgow College.

? I. FOUNDATION.

THE proposal to institute a Theological College in Glasgow, in connexion with the Free Church of Scotland, which had been for some time before entertained, assumed a definite and practical form in the spring of 1855. An offer was then made by the late Dr William Clark of Wester-Moffat to devote the sum of £30,000 to that object, on the condition that gentlemen in Glasgow and the neighbourhood, sharing with him in his views and feelings, would contribute the like sum. This proposal having been accepted to the extent of £20,000, and a formal agreement entered into to that effect, the proposed institution received the sanction of the General Assembly of that year; it being at the same time agreed that the Theological Faculty should consist of at least four Theological Professors, and that of the £40,000 devoted to the object, £30,000 should be appropriated to the endowment of the Chairs and the payment of current expenses.

The College may thus be said to have owed its foundation to Dr Clark, who also afterwards added very considerably to his benefactions, having contributed upwards of £2000 for the erection of the tower and the extension of the buildings; £1000 for the foundation of the library, and an annuity of £400 for Bursaries and a Scholarship,-thus raising the entire amount of his benefactions to this object to the princely sum of £32,000. His kinsman and heir the late William Towers Clark, Esq., was also a valued friend to the College, both by benefactions in money and by many important services.

At the meeting of the General Assembly of 1856, the site and plans of the proposed College buildings were submitted and approved of, and the Collegiate body itself formally constituted by the appointment of Dr Patrick Fairbairn and Dr James Gibson, as Professors of Divinity, and of Divinity and Church History respectively. They, along with the Rev. G. C. M. Douglas, B.A., who had been requested by the Commission, in August thereafter, to act ad interim as Hebrew tutor, commenced the work of tuition with an attendance of twenty-seven students, in the Session of 1856-7. In the next succeeding Assembly (1857) Mr Douglas was elected Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, and Dr William M. Hetherington to be Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Divinity; while Dr Fairbairn

was raised to the office of Principal, thus completing the Theological Faculty or Senatus Academicus.

The College buildings, occupying a commanding situation in the west end of the city, and constructed on plans by the late Charles Wilson, Esq., architect, Glasgow, consist of a spacious library, common hall, five class-rooms (one of which is so constructed as to be at the same time a museum), a Senate-Hall, apartments for the Janitor, and a room for gymnastic exercises, surmounted by a lofty tower. They were completed (with one exception, to be mentioned immediately) and opened November 3d, 1857. Their entire cost, exclusive of the adjoining College church, was £13,339, 35. 4d.; and an addition has since been made of Museum and other rooms, at a cost of fully £1100.

In 1869 Principal Fairbairn "reckoned all that has been contributed from one source and another for the erection of the building, the endowment of the Chairs, the payment of current expenses, the support of the Library, and the institution of bursaries and scholarships," together with the kindred Tennent Trust, at somewhat over £70,000.

§ II.-PROFESSORS AND OTHER OFFICERS.