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[[File:0002390c.jpg | border | 300 px | right | thumb | First issue of the ''Student'', 8 November 1887 (Da.69.2)]]The ''[[The Student|Student]]'' was first published on 8 November 1887.

The brainchild of [[Robert Cochrane Buist (1860-1939)]], it first appeared as an eight-page quarto costing a penny. It was issued fortnightly and contained portraits of professors with critical sketches of their work, reports of sporting events, articles, reviews, and a fortnightly series of songs with music.

When Buist graduated in 1888, the ''Student'' was adopted as the official organ of the [[Students' Representative Council]]. It assumed both a more formal and a more critical tone and set as its object 'faithfully to record the passing events of University life' and 'to form a bond of union between present and absent sons of our Alma Mater'. Where previous student publications had all been relatively short-lived, the ''Student'' would go on to provide a permanent focus for and record of student corporate life.

== Other University Events in 1887 ==

*[[Foundation of University Hall, 1887|Foundation of University Hall]]

== See Also ==

*[[Foundation of Students' Representative Council, 1884]]
== Sources ==

*Robert D. Anderson, 'The Construction of a Modern University', in Robert D. Anderson, Michael Lynch, and Nicholas Phillipson, ''The University of Edinburgh: An Illustrated History'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), pp. 103-207.
*[[Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1868-1947)|Sir Thomas Henry Holland]], 'Introduction', in A. Logan Turner (ed.), ''History of the University of Edinburgh 1883-1933'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1933), pp. xiii-xxx.

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