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ABSTRACT NOT only his own university, but also the university world at large, has suffered a great loss by the regretted death, on January 4, of Sir William Peterson at the comparatively
early age of sixty-four. Among university presidents Peterson's range of college experience and activities was exceptional and probably unrivalled. A Scottish education at the High
School and University of Edinburgh was followed by a course at the University of Göttingen, from which he went with high classical distinction to Oxford as a scholar of Corpus. After Oxford
an assistant mastership at Harrow introduced him to the life of an English public school, and as assistant professor of classics at Edinburgh he strengthened his association with that
ancient university. From that post he was selected at an unusually early age for the principalship of the newly established University College of Dundee, over the growth of which he watched
for thirteen years. Its affiliation with St. Andrews gave him intimate acquaintance with that ancient institution. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO
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