Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ost brilliant conversationalists and thekindest-hearted of men in Edinburgh. Among the prizes competed for are the goldmedal, value ten guineas, given in 1825 by theWriters to the Signet to the dux of the SeniorHumanity Class, and first awarded to Mr. WilliamM. Gunn, classical master of the school in 1843 ;a gold medal given by PeterMurray, Adjutant-General in Bengal in 1794, andthe name of which was changed to the Macgregormedal in 1831 ; a gold medal presented by the medal was first awarded. The appendi
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ost brilliant conversationalists and thekindest-hearted of men in Edinburgh. Among the prizes competed for are the goldmedal, value ten guineas, given in 1825 by theWriters to the Signet to the dux of the SeniorHumanity Class, and first awarded to Mr. WilliamM. Gunn, classical master of the school in 1843 ;a gold medal given by PeterMurray, Adjutant-General in Bengal in 1794, andthe name of which was changed to the Macgregormedal in 1831 ; a gold medal presented by the medal was first awarded. The appendix toStevenss history of the famous school contains amost interesting list of 180 boys, medallists orduxes after 1776. with notes, when ascertainable,of their future. His valuable history also containsa catalogue of the persons of eminence and rankeducated at this seminar^-. Of the distinguished men in every department oflife who conned their studies in the class-rooms, evenof the new High School, it is impossible to attemptto give a list here; but perhaps no educational. THE lliua SCHOOL. city for Greek in the Rectors class; the Ritchiegold medal, presented in 1824, by Mr. WilliamRitchie, for twenty-three years a master of theschool; the Macdonald, a third class medal,given by Colonel John Macdonald, of the regimentof Clan Alpine, son of the celebrated FloraMacdonald, and presented for the first time in1824. The College Bailie silver medal for writing, thel)ersonal gift of the gentleman holding that officefor the year, was first presented in 1814, and forthe last time in 1834. The head boy or dux of the school, at the yearlyexamination, till about the close of the eighteenthcentury, says Dr. Steven, usually received from thecity, as a prize, a copy of the best edition of one ofthe classics. This was prior to 1794, when a gold63 institution in the kingdom has ever sent forth somany pupils who h,)ve added fresh laurels to theglory of their country. In it is still preserved as a r
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