An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Gaidheal > Volume 43, October 1947--December 1948

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AN GAIDHEAL.
Am Faoilteach, 1848.
It is not to be taken for granted that members of the
University Societies with which we are concerned become
members of our Association as a matter of course! I can
write for my own contemporaries at Edinburgh University,
and record that two of us are active members of An Comunn
Gaidhealach to-day. I cannot be certain that more than 2
per cent, of the force which centred round our University
Celtic Society are now in our Comunn. And I have frequently
regretted the absence of certain among them from our Council
halls. For the other Universities I cannot write, but, even if
it is possible that they all surpass this record five times over,
it may well be that the majority of our University force never
arrives to reinforce us. I am firmly of the opinion that any
method to direct them towards us is worthy of some considera¬
tion. An annual letter, for instance, to each such Society,
inviting their members to join An Comunn, would not fail to
secure a more substantial recruitment. How very valuable
our “propaganda” might become at once if their members
(under our Junior Membership rule) came into possession of our
monthly magazine ! What an opportunity for us !
Much as I appreciate the genius of my fellow-Gaels, I have
not yet found among them an inordinate readiness to widen
their sometimes closed and attenuated ranks, and I am
thoroughly persuaded that a greater readiness to seek the
co-operation of the whole body of the class under review is the
way of promise. Quite obviously, something bigger than
anything we have yet contemplated is necessary, if we are to
do for Gaelic in Scotland greater service than to give it finally
a good “keening.” For any stubborn stand, and for any
advance, we need the full strength and equipment of all our
trained minds. It behoves us not only to welcome this type
of recruit, but to search for it. Let us persuade them to join
us. We have opportunity and means.
Time and again in my associations with the so-called
professional class I have been surprised to find how many
ministers, doctors, schoolmasters, and others, are not in the
habit of reading An Gaidfiml, a token that they are not members
of An Comunn. I have persuaded one or two to do better !
Our strength and our capacity, our fitness to command
success, depends now as never before on our weight of members
and on the skill and talent of our full force ; and I consider it
worthy of some care to endeavour, very directly and systema¬
tically, to recruit all the force that the Universities have to
offer annually to us.—Yours heartily,
Malcolm MacLean.
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