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Title: Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin
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sponding chairs in the University of Edinburgh, in1S53 and 1857, this extended platform was re-nounced, and the efforts of the Free Church ofScotland were concentrated exclusively upon train-ing in theology. Premises—however, inadequate for the full ,development of the intended system—were at once 1 • them of the dentists complaint, and begged th.itthey would comply with his request. I wouldbe sorry indeed if we were to give offence to anyneighbour, said the principal; adding, with a touchof that dry humour which was peculiar to him, but more especially Mr. Nasmyth, a gentlemanso very much in the nwiit/is of the public. Immediately after the Disruption, Dr. Chalmershad taken active steps to secure for the FreeChurch a proper system of theological training, infull accordance with the principles he hadadvocated so long, and subscription lists were atonce opened to procure a building suited to theobject. Each contributor gave ^2,000, andDr. Welsh succeeded in obtaining from twenty-
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ERRATUM. The inscription to the engraving on p. 96 should read The Bank okScotland, i-rom Princes Street Gardens. The Mound.) THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 97 one persons ^i,ooo each, a sum which more thansufficed to purchase the site of the college—theold Guise Palace, with its adjacent closes—and toerect the edifice, while others were built atGlasgow and Aberdeen. Plans by W. H. Playfair, architect, were pre-pared and adopted, after a public competition hadbeen resorted to, and the new buildings were atonce proceeded with. The foundation stone waslaid on the 4th of June, 1846, by Dr. Chalmers, The stairs on the south side of the quadranglelead to the Free Assembly Hall, on the exact siteof the Guise Palace. It was erected from designsby David Bryce, at a cost of ^7,000, which wascollected by ladies alone belonging to the FreeChurch throughout Scotland. The structure was four years in completion, andwas opened on the 6th of November, 1850,under thesanction of the Commission of the Fre

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