Excerpt from The Building of the Three Houses, 1451 1870: An Oration A photograph, taken in 1870, is familiar to most of us who are assembled to-day in this Hall. It shows the beautiful staircase, completed in the last years of the seventeenth century, which used to lead up to the Fore Common Hall and the Principal's House in the Outer Court of the Old College, and now leads down to the Principal's House in the Outer Court of the New Buildings. On the staircase are seen in the photograph twenty-six gowned figures - the Members of the Senate of the University, with Lachlan Macpherson carrying the mace, in the act of leaving the old home for the new. Only one of those who walked in that historical procession has lived to witness our first Jubilee at Gilmorehill - our venerable and beloved Dean of the Faculties, Professor George Ramsay, the inheritor and the fulfiller of a great Glasgow tradition. The College of which the Senate, under the leadership of Principal Barclay and Professor John Caird, took its farewell in the autumn of 1870, was the second of three houses which have given a local habitation to the University of Glasgow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.