THE
PETP;RITE. VoL . X .
NOVEMBER, 1886 .
No . 64.
EDINBURGH LETTER. INCE the appearance of the last Edinburgh letter much of importance has transpired in the University. Early in the summer the honour of knighthood was conferred upon the Professors of Anatomy and Forensic Medicine, an honour which was most deservedly merited, and which gave universal satisfaction. The Rectorial Election, which is a triennial proceeding, took place on the 3oth October, and resulted in the return of Lord Iddesleigh, who defeated Sir Lyon Playfair by a majority of 347 . Immediately after the declaration of the poll a band of excited students marched to the International Exhibition and made an attack on the principal entrance, which was defended by a body of police and exhibition officials. The students would have undoubtedly made their way in had not a large reinforcement of police put a stop to further proceedings. In the evening the usual torchlight procession was held . After parading the principal streets, escorted by a large body of mounted constabulary, an adjournment was made to the Calton hill, where the remains of the torches were burned . After a verse of ' Auld Lang Syne ' and the National Anthem, the majority formed into procession and marched to the Exhibition, where a long series of skirmishes with the police again took place, and resulted in several of the more or less rowdy being, to use a common expression, ' run in . ' We hear that rustication and a heavy fine was inflicted on those gentlemen so 'run
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in., The above were the proceedings which marked the closing of the Exhibition. Football shall next engage our attention . The 'Varsity team this season are exceptionally good forward and moderately so behind . Up to the present we have only lost two matches, both in the English tour, against Bradford and Richmond . We, however, had the satisfartion of beating Oxford by a try to nil .