Cash-strapped history

October 20, 2000

Edinburgh University, which has just unveiled radical plans to combat dwindling government funding, is no stranger to financial privations.

The foundation stone of its 18th-century Old College was laid in 1789.

Because of subsequent constraints on public funds, it took another years to finish the building.

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