As you send a man to an English University that he may have his prejudices rubbed off, you might send him to Edinburgh that he may have them ingrained--rendered indelible--fostered by sympathy into living principles of his spirit.
And the reason of it is quite plain.

From this absence of University feeling it comes that a man's friendships are always the direct and immediate results of these very prejudices.

A common weakness is the best master of ceremonies in our quadrangle: a mutual vice is the readiest introduction.

The studious associate with the studious alone--the dandies with the dandies.

There is nothing to force them to rub shoulders with the others; and so they grow day by day more wedded to their own original opinions and affections.