Next evening David wrote to his friends that he had entered in the various classes, and spent twelve pounds in fees; that he felt very lonely after his father left, but would put "a stout heart to a stey brae," and "either mak' a spune or spoil a horn." At Rotten Row he found that his landlady held rather communistic views in regard to his tea and sugar; so another search had to be made, and this time he found a room in the High street, where he was very comfortable, at half-a-crown a week.
At the close of the session in April he returned to Blantyre and resumed work at the mill.

He was unable to save quite enough for his second session, and found it necessary to borrow a little from his elder brother[9].

The classes he attended during these two sessions were the Greek class in Anderson's College, the theological classes of Rev.Dr.
Wardlaw, who trained students for the Independent Churches, and the medical classes in Anderson's.

In the Greek class he seems to have been entered as a private student exciting little notice[10].

In the same capacity he attended the lectures of Dr.Wardlaw.He had a great admiration for that divine, and accepted generally his theological views.