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those of the sea and of golf upon the far-reaching moor. The student, often originally himself a shepherd, takes most naturally to the game, and becomes more expert in it than the working shepherds or others have time to be, and the inventive and mechanical townsman improves both "club" and "ball." He carries on the game through youth and age ; at last he writes of it with enthusiasm ; in every way he diffuses it, by and by from London as journalist and politician. But for centuries every St. Andrews man has been more or less of a Balfour or an Andrew Lang. {The Co-operative Wholesale Socieiies Annual, 1895, article on "Education for Economics and Citizenship, and the Place of History and Geography in This," pp. 485-529.)

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DESIGNS BY THE OLD EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF ART

Leaving the Scottish division of the tower, we reach the story below Scotland, which is devoted to the empire, and to an alcove for the United States. Here one finds an incipient record of the English-speaking world, and indication of the inclusive- ness of the project. The descent of another flight of steps brings us to Europe. Again we may see the combination of the scientific and the practical, in the record of Professor Geddes' recent experiments in Cyprus, which he chose as "a geograph- ical and historic, racial and social microcosm; and as a unique region which, while practically a portion of the colonial empire,