He and a small group of friends began the
St. Leonard's Magazine, a twelvepage weekly of arts and literature; Lang was editor and chief contributor. In later years Lang often spent his summers at St. Andrews, where he made use of the university library for his research. Of all the honors he was to receive, he thought most highly of the honorary doctorate awarded him by St. Andrews University.
Lang transferred to the University of Glasgow in 1864 in order to qualify as a candidate for the Snell exhibition, a major scholarship to Oxford. He won the competition and entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1865. With Benjamin Jowett as his tutor, he took first class in two subjects in 1868 and was subsequently elected to an open fellowship at Merton College. However, what appeared to be the beginning of a brilliant academic career was interrupted by an acute lung infection in the autumn of 1872. Following the advice of his physician, he went to the French Riviera for two winters to recover his health. There he met Robert Louis Stevenson and began a lifelong friendship with him.
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