Comments on: Dr Johnson in St Andrews http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/dr-johnson-in-st-andrews/ always busy counting, doubting every figured guess . . . Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:15:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Cameron http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/dr-johnson-in-st-andrews/#comment-3087 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:58:56 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1773#comment-3087 Charles Leedham-Green reminded me of the rhyme from The Masque of Balliol (ca 1880), on Benjamin Jowett:

I am Master of this College,
What I don’t know isn’t knowledge.

]]> By: Peter Cameron http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/dr-johnson-in-st-andrews/#comment-2976 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:37:34 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1773#comment-2976 Lovely stuff! Someone else who rhymes “college” with “knowledge” (in the company of Bob Dylan and Steely Dan).

]]> By: oscilor http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/dr-johnson-in-st-andrews/#comment-2971 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:34:29 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1773#comment-2971 Luckily, things had improved a century later, when the university college of Dundee was formed as an offshoot of St Andrews. William Topaz McGonagall wrote these encouraging words:

“The College is most handsome and magnificent to be seen,
And Dundee can now almost cope with Edinburgh or Aberdeen,
For the ladies of Dundee can now learn useful knowledge
By going to their own beautiful College.”

and

“My son, get knowledge,” so said the sage,
For it will benefit you in your old age,
And help you through this busy world to pass,
For remember a man without knowledge is just like an ass.”

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/lpgcollege.htm

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