up with the masters the zeir they go on with them, so that
Mr. David Munro having the Magistrand [or oldest] classe now, he
take the Bejane classe [or the youngest students, the _Bejani_,
derived from the French word _bejaune_, a novice] the next zeir."
(_Sessio 2__da__, September 17_. Evid. for Univ. Com. ut supra p.
260). This new mode of instruction continued to be followed till the
year 1727, when the old system enjoined in the foundation charter
was revived (Rep. of Roy. Com. ut supra p. 223). It is said that Dr.
Thomas Rand, the celebrated philosopher, was an advocate of the
system of ambulatory professors, which was adhered to in Kings
College, Aberdeen down to the beginning of the present century (Old
Stat Acc. of Scot., vol. xxi. Append., p. 83). The first class that
Binning taught was the class of the _Bejani_ (Wodrow's Analecta,
vol. i, p. 338. MSS in Bib. Ad.). He and the other Regents were all
styled "Professors of Philosophy." Appendix to Spottiswood's Hist.
of Ch. of Scot., p. 22, London, 1777.--_Ed._]

97 [It was the custom of the Regents to _dictate_, to the students
their observations on such parts of the writings of Aristotle,
Porphyry, and others, as were read in their classes. This was done
in Latin which was the only language allowed to be used by the
students even in their common conversation. At a meeting of
commissioners from the different universities of Scotland, which was
held at Edinburgh on the 24th of July, 1648, one of the resolutions
agreed upon, was to this effect--"Because the _diting_ [dictating] of
long notes has in time past proved a hindrance, not only to
necessary studies, but also to a knowledge of the text itself, and
to the examination of such things as are taught, it is therefore
seriously recommended by the commissioners to the dean and faculty
of arts that the regents spend not so much time in _diting_ of their
notes, that no new lesson be taught till the former be examined."
(Bower's History of the University of Edinburgh, vol. i. p. 244).
Binning, it is said, "dictated all his notes off hand" (Wodrow's
Analecta, vol. i. p. 338. MS in Bib. Ad.) Had he lived it was
thought "he had been one of the greatest schoolmen of his time."--Id.
vol. v. p. 342.--_Ed_.]

98 [Long after t