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"C'EW places throughout the country can boast as their centre of
education such a palatial pile as Milne's Institution. Standing
some distance beyond the village, it occupies a commanding position,
and at once arrests the attention of the visitor, invariably calling forth
admiration alike for the handsome nature of the building and the
beauty of its surroundings. It is of the Tudor-Gothic style of archi-
tecture, combining solidity with chaste ornamentation. The balcony
overlooking its terraced front, the large lawn stretching down to the
main entrance, the tasteful shrubbery on the outskirts of the grounds,
added to its charming situation, mark it out as a lordly mansion. On
the north it looks beyond " The Belt " into the policies of Gordon
Castle ; immediately to the east rises, in easy ascent, the dark pine
wood that clothes " White Ash " ; the panorama of the Spey spreads
its charms towards the south ; while, to the west, it commands a bird's-
eye view of Fochabers, to which it stands as the " Alma Mater."
The people of Fochabers may well be pardoned if they exhibit
feelings of pride in " The Institution." This feeling of regard for the
School is a very well-defined one, and strangers, far from the banks of
Spey, are apt to smile at the somewhat glorified picture of his old
school drawn by some enthusiastic old pupil of " Milne's." Within
the village itself the great bulk of the householders are old pupils, and
still a few are left who can proudly point out to the ignorant the spot
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