Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . tly caused to run. One word more is perhaps is hoped that this Chronicle will not AD LECTOREM xiii be thought to be of a complexion tooMilitary. Some seven-and-twenty ofthe Class went into the Services, as willbe seen, at an important juncture in thehistory of our country; and, with theirweapons, have gathered in a goodlyharvest of honours in the field and onthe sea. Thirty-nine military decora-tions, including six of British andForeign knightly Orders, have fallento the share of the Class. To show
Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . tly caused to run. One word more is perhaps is hoped that this Chronicle will not AD LECTOREM xiii be thought to be of a complexion tooMilitary. Some seven-and-twenty ofthe Class went into the Services, as willbe seen, at an important juncture in thehistory of our country; and, with theirweapons, have gathered in a goodlyharvest of honours in the field and onthe sea. Thirty-nine military decora-tions, including six of British andForeign knightly Orders, have fallento the share of the Class. To show how all this came about;and to record the achievements, no lessheroic, of many of our class-fellows inCivil life \ and of others with the pen;and to trace careers of quiet industryand usefulness, is the aim of the latterpart of this volume, where it has been xiv AD LECTOREM attempted to make mention, howeverslight in some cases, of each one ofthose who were under Dr. Cummingscare at the Academy between the years1841 and 1846 inclusive. A. F. Lennox Street, Edinburgh,August 1887. \. CONTENTS DEDICATION, .AD LECTOREM, Page V CHAPTER I. PRIMA VESTIGIA. October ist : The New Academy: The Geits : Old ScotsSchool System : Mr. James Cumming : At High School :At University : Quakers School, Darlington : EdinburghAcademy: Archibald Campbell Tait : Frederick WilliamRobertson : Earl of Southesk : Sir Mountstuart Grant DufF:Bishop of Waiapu : Archdeacon Williams : Mr. RobertHamilton : Mr. Theodore Williams : The Jenny and hisWife, ..... page 3 CHAPTER II. IN THE SECOND. Exhibition day : Russia duck : Mr. Cummings teaching : Classdiscipline : Reflections on the class : Oxford Latin : *Mene-laws : St. Laurence brandered: The Rector prosecutor : xvi CONTENTS Weight of evidence : Tan-pit prophylactic : Good gear insmall parcels : An Experiment: The Oppressors of theSixth and Seventh—Taits reminiscences: Knifey onthe bank : Dafty Maxwell —Taits recollections : ClerkMaxwell and the Sea Fyke
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