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The Scotsman -
Saturday, 4th January 1834
We understand that
the Trustees of the Madras College, St Andrews, have unanimously elected
Mr Thomas Miller, A.M. teacher of Arithmetic and Mathematics, and Mr
John White, of writing and drawing in that institution. The former of
these gentlemen has particularly distinguished himself as a proficient
in the various departments of pure and mixed mathematics, and has
already had very considerable experience in conducting the mathematical
studies of young men attending the University of St Andrews, and the
latter has been held in the highest estimation as a public and private
teacher in Edinburgh and elsewhere. The Madras College, so liberally
endowed by the late Dr Bell, is now supplied with teachers of the
greatest eminence in the several departments of a liberal education, and
we have no doubt it will prove a powerful auxiliary to the celebrated
University of St Andrews, a blessing to that city, and to society in
general. |
| The Scotsman -
Wednesday, 17th July 1844
Mrs GRAHAM, WIDOW of the late ALEX. GRAHAM, Surgeon, Polmont, having
REMOVED to SOUTH STREET, ST ANDREWS, is desirous to receive into her
Family a few BOYS as BOARDERS, to attend the Madras College.
TERMS:-Twenty-five Guineas per annum for Boys under Twelve. A Tutor will
attend in the evening. Mrs G. begs to refer to the following Gentlemen:-
Rev. Dr Haldane, Rev . Dr Buist, Rev. Dr Ferrie, and Professor
Alexander, St Andrews; Rev. John Ker, Polmont; Rev. Jas. M'Farlane ,
Muiravonside; Rev. George Boag, Uphall; Rev. James Fowler, Ratho; Rev.
Charles Nairne, St John's, Glasgow; Dr John M'Farlane , 114 St Vincent
Street, Glasgow; Professor Simpson, Dr Thatcher, and Dr Wm. Campbell,
Edinburgh. |
The Scotsman - Saturday, 15th
August 1846Madras
College ST ANDREWS. The annual examination of this distinguished and
flourishing seminary took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
the 5th, 6th, and 7th current. The Trustees of Dr Bell, the founder,
presided on the occasion , and were assisted throughout by Professors
Dunbar; Pillans and Kelland, of the University of Edinburgh. There
were also present in the course of the proceedings a good many other
gentlemen professionally concerned in education, particularly
Professors Duncan, Jackson, Reid, Connell, Spalding, and Ferrier, of
St Andrews ; Professor Martin of Aberdeen; Mr Lees of Edinburgh; Mr
Miller of the Perth Academy; and Dr Hunter of the Academy at Ayr. The
examinations were also visited by several members of the Presbytery of
St Andrews, and by ministers of various other churches. The courts and
halls of the College were crowded by the pupils, their friends and
relations and by other persons taking an interest in the business. It
is a fact to which even in Scotland there is no parallel, that in a
town containing not much more than four thousand inhabitants, there
should exist a school attended by between eight and nine hundred
pupils-a proportion which, according to the common statistical
estimate applicable to ordinary circumstances, would more than account
for all the children of the community between six and twelve years of
age. Those, also, by whose exertions this honourable result has been
effected, have the encouragement of reflecting that their success has
been steadily increasing, and that the influx of families from a
distance, and of children sent to board, has of late been going on
more and more rapidly. The gross number of pupils attending the Madras
College has, we believe, been greater during the last year than in any
year preceding. While these facts could not have occurred without
eminent merit and most active exertion upon the part of the masters,
they are yet also attributable in a large degree to the broad plan
upon which the institution is constructed, meeting alike the demands
of the poor and of the rich . English education of the very best kind
may here be obtained for a shilling a quarter, and other elementary
teaching proportionably cheap; while the establishment affords to
youth intended for the liberal professions instruction of equal merit
in all the highest branches of knowledge that are taught elsewhere in
Scotland beyond the walls of the universities.
At the close of the mathematical examination, Professor Kelland
congratulated Mr Loanie on the appearance which his classes had made;
and expressed a confident expectation that the evident talent and
energy of the new master will speedily enable him to make the
appearances of his classes all that is either possible or desirable in
such a school. Mr Lees expressed his cordial concurrence in Professor
Kelland's remarks.
At the close of the arithmetical
examinations, Professor Kelland said that this was not the first time
he had had an opportunity of witnessing the appearances of Mr
Smeaton's pupils, and that what he had this day seen confirmed and
heightened the exceedingly favourable opinion he had previously
formed. In his opinion the system was admirable which that gentlemen
used for awakening the attention of his pupils, and for insuring that
union of readiness with accuracy which is essential in the sciences he
teaches. At the close of the examination in the English department on
Friday, which completed the inspection, Professor Pillans rose and
addressed the trustees and the audience, which crowded the large West
Room. He said that it had been in the utmost degree pleasant to him to
witness the examinations of the day, which were fully sufficient to
justify and sustain the high reputation which Mr Young, the English
master, had already established. The exhibition had shown this
gentleman to be thoroughly possessed of the great secret of teaching,
the great secret of reaching both the intellect and the affections of
his pupils. He declared the satisfaction it had given him to observe
the activity and promise of Mr Loanie. Mr Smeaton's arithmetical
classes had given him the greatest possible pleasure and drawn forth
from the pupils extraordinary efforts of mind-efforts which he had
never seen surpassed, which, perhaps, he had never seen equalled. Mr
Smeaton's energy and spirit were not more remarkable than the order
and method which he infused into all the proceedings; he showed the
most complete command of the attention and affections of his pupils;
the professor had admired the beautiful discipline in which they were
kept. Proceeding to describe Dr Woodford 's classes, the Professor
said that he had been delighted with everything that he there saw. The
language is taught in a most gentlemanlike, correct, and philosophical
manner. In Dr Woodford the institution has made a most valuable
acquisition. Professor Pillans afterwards desired to add, that he had
witnessed with much satisfaction the results of the teaching in tile
drawing' school. He entertained a perfect conviction that the
instruction was communicated in a style of very superior excellence.
Professor Dunbar expressed his perfect concurrence in the sentiments
of his colleague as to this great seminary. He pronounced the seminary
to he one of the finest and best we have in this country; he might
safely say that it stands at the head of all the seminaries of the
kind throughout the kingdom, so far as these are known to him. The
pupils are endued with the best moral sentiments, as well as fitted
for the discharge of all the duties of life. He begged to express his
entire concurrence with Professor Pillans as to the merits of Dr
Woodford.
Dr Buist, the presiding trustee, said that he had been requested by
several of the gentlemen around him to express the satisfaction with
which they had examined the work done in the writing department. They
had desired him to say that they considered the appearance in this
department to be highly creditable both to Mr Morrison and to the
institution.
Dr Buist next presented to the assembly Master Andrew Rollo, a pupil
of the Madras College, aged (we should suppose) eleven or twelve
years. He said that on a late melancholy occasion, when Mr Taylor,
formerly the English assistant at the institution, perished in the
attempt to save one of his pupils from drowning, the boy in danger was
rescued by one of his companions, who now stood beside the speaker.
The Humane Society had voted a medal to Master Rollo, and the medal
would now have been presented bah it arrived. The rev. gentleman then
briefly, but impressively , addressed the masters, the pupils, and the
parents and guardians.
After this, the proceedings were closed by the distribution of prizes
in Mr Young's classes, the prizes in the other departments having been
distributed previously.
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The Scotsman -
Wednesday, 18th May 1836
In the Madras
College in St Andrews (which is merely a large school for children under
fifteen years of age), there are no fewer than 700 pupils , of whom
about the half are strangers sent thither for their education, of whom
had the Madras institution not existed , the greater part would, it is
likely , have been sent to Edinburgh. Indeed, there are instances of
whole families removing from Edinburgh to St Andrews for the education
of their children. |
| The Scotsman -
Saturday, 11th July 1846
ST ANDREWS-MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-On Friday week a number of Miss
Dempster's boarders were bathing among the rocks to the westward of the
Witch Lake, when one of them, named Lees (son of Professor Lees of the
Military Academy ), having got, into deep water, begun to sink. Their
tutor, Mr Taylor, who was standing near, with all his clothes on, leaped
into the water with a most praiseworthy spirit, in order to rescue the
buy, when all on a sudden he stepped into a sort of whirlpool , formed
by the confluence of the Swilcan Burn with the sea; and being unable to
extricate himself from the current, he appeared only once above the
water, and sunk to rise no more. It was fully half an hour before he was
got out, when life was found to be quite extinct. The boy whom he so
disinterestedly attempted to save would inevitably have shared a similar
fate, but for the timely assistance of a boy named Rollo, about thirteen
or fourteen years of age, who fearlessly swam into the water, and pushed
him ashore. He afterwards attempted to save Mr Taylor, and succeeded in
sustaining him above the water for some time; but becoming quite
exhausted, he had to relinquish his hold. The deceased was a student of
divinity, and was for some time one of the assistant teachers in the
English department of the Madras College. |
| The Scotsman -
Wednesday, 25th August 1847
MADRAS COLLEGE , ST ANDREWS
(From the Fifeshire Journal.)
The annual examination of this institution commenced on Wednesday the
11th curt., and lasted throughout that day and the two following. We are
glad to learn that the number of pupils is still increasing; it amounted
on this occasion to upwards of nine hundred, a point which, we believe ,
it had never previously reached.
During the last two days the rooms of the writing and drawing classes
were thrown open. On Mr Morrison's tables we found the same proofs as
formerly of steady and intelligent teaching; Mr Paterson's rooms
exhibited a beautiful array of highly-finished ornamental drawings of
various kinds, together with a good many pieces architectural,
mechanical, and military.
The appearance of Mr Messieux's French classes was spoken of with
merited approbation.
The Greek and Latin classes of Dr Woodford occupied the visitors during
the greater part of Wednesday.The five classes for Latin and the three
for Greek were put through a very searching examination, being
questioned not only by the master, but repeatedly and severely by
Professors Pillans and Dunbar.
Professor Dunbar spoke with high approbation both of the extent of the
course of study set forth in the synopsis, and of the success with which
the course had been prosecuted, as evinced by the difficult and
complicated questions answered, he bestowed especial commendation upon
the Greek classes, and he bore his testimony to the merits of Dr
Woodford for accurate and philosophical acquaintance with the principles
of the language, as well as for extensive and critical study of the
classical authors.
Principal Haldane, in addressing Dr Woodford, commended warmly both his
indefatigable and ceaseless exertions and the value of his system of
teaching as an exercise and improvement of the powers of thinking.
Professor Pillans took occasion on Friday to speak of these classes. He
said that his opinion of Dr Woodford , high as it was before , had risen
much since he last expressed it at an examination of the Madras College.
He had never seen more active exertions or more successful results in
any classes of the kind. Dr Woodford had adopted a modification of the
monitorial system, which appeared to him so ingeniously devised and so
effectual that he felt assured he would adopt it himself if he were
again a teacher in the High School of Edinburgh.
The Mathematical and Arithmetical classes were examined on Thursday.
Mr Lonie's mathematical classes occupied the earlier hours of the
forenoon. Their programme exhibited an extensive course of teaching in
geometry, practical mathematics, algebra, and geography; and in all
these branches they sustained an active examination. Dr Haldane
addressed Mr Lonie with unqualified commendation.
The examination of the arithmetical classes was conducted by Mr Smeaton
with his accustomed spirit, and with full proof of his well-known skill
and success. An elaborate illustration by his senior pupils of the
principles of book-keeping was followed by the successive examinations
and competitions in arithmetic. The competitions excited, as they always
do, great interest in the audience.
The classes in English Reading, Recitation, Grammar, Composition,
History, and Geography, taught by Mr Young and his assistants, occupied
the whole of Friday. This long series of examinations, embracing several
hundred pupils and a vast variety of subjects, was as usual, one of the
most interesting and popular of the proceedings of the occasion.
Professor Pillans described the exhibition as truly admirable, and as
calculated to raise his opinion of Mr Young even higher, if possible,
than before. He adverted particularly to the essays read by the young
ladies of the private class, as indicating a maturity of intellect and a
degree., of right moral feeling doing equal credit to themselves, their
parents, and their teacher. It always gave him much delight to witness
the animation which Mr Young showed in teaching, and which was
communicated so powerfully to his pupils. |
| The Scotsman -
Saturday, 4th September 1852
BOARD AND EDUCATION AT ST ANDREWS
THE REV. DR CRAIG (Assistant to the Very Rev. PRINCIPAL HALDANE, can
accommodate a few YOUNG GENTLEMEN who may contemplate attending either
the Madras College or the University. Situated in Hope Street, the
finest locality in the City, and with large Pleasure Grounds in front,
Dr C's house offers a most healthful and agreeable residence, while the
morals as well as the studies of such as may be intrusted to his care
will be superintended by Dr C. in person.
Terms may be learned on application to Dr Craig. |
| The Scotsman -
Wednesday, 31st August 1853
Madras College, ST ANDREWS, FIFE
MISS BOUSIE, who has already Three Boarders (under 14 years of age)
attending the above Institution, to whose Parents she is kindly allowed
to refer, would be happy to accommodate other Two of a like age, and to
do every thing in her power to promote their comfort and happiness. : -
The Session commences 20th September.
Terms and references may be learned on application to Miss B. |
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