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personal portrayals of the men who built the foundations upon which the present great superstructure rests, the writer will be gratified.
Having been himself at one time a pupil in the old Academy building, his interest has been enhanced in the course of the present work by the memory of his attendance on tuition in the venerable birthplace, now no more, of the great educational institution whose continuing years have left a record of such great interest, and which to-day holds out such enlarging promises, the fruitage of the seed laid there in 1749 by the "voluntary society of founders," as the Trustees were termed by the first Provost.
Thos. H. Montgomery.
Ardrossan,
23 February, 1900.
