"In the cold, forbidding, greyness of St Andrews - with its dedication to 'causes purely spiritual and intellectual, to religion and learning' (Andrew Lang) - I learned, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming."

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