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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX I LIST OF RECTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY FROM 1859 TO 1894 SIR RALPH ANSTRUTHER (1859-1862) SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL (1862-1865) JOHN STUART MILL (1865-1868) JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (1868-1871) LORD NEAVES (1872-1874) DEAN STANLEY (1874-1877) THE EARL OF SELBORNE (1877-1880) SIR THEODORE MARTIN (1880-1883) LORD REAY (1884-1886) ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (1886-1889) THE MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA (1889-1892) THE MARQUESS OF BUTE (1892-1895) The Hector of a Scottish University is elected for a term of three years. Ten of the twelve St. Andrews' Rectors, whose addresses are published in this volume, held office for three years, but two of them, viz., Lord Neaves anil Lord Reay, only for two years. The explanation of this is that Mr. Ruskin was elected before Lord N eaves, and Mr. Russell Lowell before Lord Reay, but neither of them took office. The delay in the appointment of their successors, in each case, took a year out of their terms of office respectively. It may also be explained that the date for the delivery of the Rectorial Address isi nvariably left to thu Rector. It will be seen that an interval of nearly five years separated Mr. Ballbur's address from Lord Reay's, while only two and a half divided Lord Bute's from Lord Dulierin's, and only one year and two months separated Sir Theodore Martin's and Lord Reay's. As three to four years is the usual length of the undergraduate course, this 1ms deprived some students from ever hearing a Rectorial Address, and has enabled others to hear two of them. But, when public men are selected to fill such an office as the Rector of a University, it must be left to them to fix the date most convenient for their visit, and their address. W. K. APPENDIX II L...