Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii residence in edinburgh and university life The new home--George Lawrie--Introductory lecture--Controversy as to teaching of political economy--Home life--Reading--The Moral Philosophy class--Interest in students--A proposed Lectureship in Psychology. The Professors of Edinburgh University are not provided with official residences. On removing from Glasgow it therefore became possible for Professor and Mrs. Calderwood to select their house on the extreme outskirts of the Merchiston district. Professor Calderwood had a horror of living in a street where he could not go out to breathe the fresh air apart from the accompaniments of flagstones and the noise of traffic. A house was bought in Napier Road, which then separated Merchiston from the open country. From the windows of Craigrowan, as the house was called, the Pentland Hills, Craiglockhart, and the Dalmahoys were in full view to the south and west, while to the north, beyond Corstorphine and the more distant Firth of Forth, lay the long line of the Fife shore and the Ochils. The unpretentious stable, which had to be built, and the garden, were put under the charge of George Lawrie, the kind-hearted and faithful servant, who continued as one of the family from this time till after his master's death, a period of about thirty years. Never did a servant more truly reverence and love his master. In time he became a sort of guardian and companion to his master's children, teaching them to ride, playing games with them in his spare time--and sometimes perhaps when he could not spare the time--learning to row and to fish in order to go out little expeditions with them. Few there were who visited at Craigrowan or lived in the neighbourhood who did not know George, and we cannot...
