the college administrator
Smith's alleged helplessness in business transactions, [66]; his large participation in business at Glasgow, [67]. Appointed Quæstor, [68]; Dean of Faculty, [68]; Vice-Rector, [68]. Dissensions in the University, [69]; their origin in the academic constitution, [70]. Enlightened educational policy of the University authorities, [71]. James Watt, University instrument-maker; Robert Foulis, University printer, [71]. Wilson, type-founder and astronomer. The Academy of Design. Professor Anderson's classes for working men, [72]. Smith and Watt, [73]. Smith's connection with Foulis's Academy of Design, [74]. Smith and Wilson's type-foundry, [77]. Proposed academy of dancing, fencing, and riding in the University, [79]. Smith's opposition to the new Glasgow theatre, [80]; his generally favourable views on theatrical representations, [81]. His protests against Professor Anderson voting for his own translation to Natural Philosophy chair, [83]. Joins in refusing Professor Rouet leave to travel abroad with a pupil, and in depriving him of office for his absenteeism, [84].
among glasgow folk
Glasgow at period of Smith's residence, [87]; its beauty, [88]; its expanding commerce and industry, [89]; its merchants, [90]. Andrew Cochrane, [91]. The economic club, [92]. Duty on American iron and foreign linen yarns, [93]. Paper money, [94]. The Literary Society, [95]. Smith's paper on Hume's Essays on Commerce, [95]. "Mr. Robin Simson's Club," [96]. Saturday dinners at Anderston, [97]. Smith at whist, [97]. Simson's ode to the Divine Geometer, [98]. James Watt's account of this club, [99]. Professor Moor, [99].
edinburgh activities
Edinburgh friends, [101]. Wilkie, the poet, [102]. William Johnstone (afterwards Sir William Pulteney), [103]. Letter of Smith introducing Johnstone to Oswald, [103]. David Hume, [105]. The Select Society, [107]; Smith's speech at its first meeting, [108]; its debates, [109]; its great attention to economic subjects, [110]; its practical work for improvement of arts, manufactures, and agriculture, [112]; its dissolution, [118]. Thomas Sheridan's classes on elocution, [119]. The Edinburgh Review, [120]; Smith's contributions, [121]; on Wit and Humour, [122]; on French and English classics, [123]; on Rousseau's discourse on inequality, [124]. Smith's republicanism, [124]. Premature end of the Review, [124]; Hume's exclusion from it, [126]. Attempt to subject him to ecclesiastical censure, [127]. Smith's views and Douglas's Criterion of Miracles Examined, [129]. Home's Douglas, [130]. Chair of Jurisprudence in Edinburgh, [131]. Miss Hepburn, [133]. The Poker Club, [134]; founded to agitate for a Scots militia, [135]. Smith's change of opinion on that subject, [137]. The tax on French wines, [139].