mace is still extant) and with gorgeous furniture and cloth of gold.
St. Leonard's was founded by Prior Hepburn in 1512. Of St.
Salvator's the ancient chapel still remains, and is in use. St.
Leonard's was merged with St. Salvator's in the last century: its
chapel is now roofless, some of the old buildings remain, much
modernised, but on the south side fronting the gardens they are
still picturesque. Both Colleges were, originally, places of
residence for the students, as at Oxford and Cambridge, and the
discipline, especially at St. Leonard's, was rather monastic. The
Reformation caused violent changes; all through these troubled ages
the new doctrines, and then the violent Presbyterian pretensions to
clerical influence in politics, and the Covenant and the Restoration
and Revolution, kept busy the dwellers in what should have been
`quiet collegiate cloisters.' St. Leonard's was more extreme, on
Knox's side, than St. Salvator's, but was also more devoted to King
James in 1715. From St. Andrews Simon Lovat went to lead his
abominable old father's clan, on the Prince Regent's side, in 1745.
Golf and archery, since the Reformation at least, were the chief
recreations of the students, and the archery medals bear all the
noblest names of the North, including those of Argyll and the great
Marquis of Montrose. Early in the present century the old ruinous
college buildings of St. Salvator's ceased to be habitable, except
by a ghost! There is another spectre of a noisy sort in St.
Leonard's. The new buildings are mere sets of class-rooms, the
students live where they please, generally in lodgings, which they
modestly call bunks. There is a hall for dinners in common; it is
part of the buildings of the Union, a new hall added to an ancient
house.

It was thus to a university with ancient associations, with a