Away from the cathedral grounds, not far along North Street and nearly hidden behind the Younger Hall, is a Men's Residence, St.Salvator's Hall, where I lived during my three years at the Universtiy:

St. Salvator's Hall - "Sallies"

     The windows of my room during my last two years are hidden by the foliage at the left, just above and to the right of the lamp. Across the Scores (the street closest to the sea, which if you must, leads to the Royal & Ancient Golf Club), behind Sallies is the Department of Ecomomics:


     This is one of the buildings which were private houses when I was one of only seven hundred fifty or so students. Now there are several thousand, but the University is still the smallest in Scotland. It is here that Duncan addressed his fellow economists on work based on information which has only recently become available through the United Nations.
     If you return to North Street and continue away from the cathedral you come to the old quadrangle of the United College. An entrance to the quad is through the arch in the base of the Chapel Tower:



The University Chapel, from 1451

     In the cobblestones between the Chapel and the street is an X, marking the spot where Andrew Hamilton and other Hussite heretics were burned before the Reformation. It used to be the custom to avoid stepping on the stones that made up the cross. To the left, beside the lane called Butts Wynd, is the Admirable Crichton's house. Crichton graduated from the University at some very early age, and became Admirable for winning a debate at the University of Paris. He apparently was not as admirable a swordsman as a debater, for he lost a duel in Italy before he was thirty. In my day this house was the Student Union, and is now a dining hall.