Word: edinburgh
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor James sailed for Liverpool on the Ivernia Tuesday afternoon. After a few weeks stay in England he will go to Scotland, where he will deliver at the University of Edinburgh the Gifford lectures, a course of ten lectures, dealing with religious and philosophical topics...
...President Roosevelt will be present one day, either Tuesday or Wednesday. Governor McLean, of Connecticut, will attend with his staff. The Presidents of nearly all prominent American universities and colleges will be there, together with representatives of the following foreign institutions: Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen University, Glasgow University Victoria University, Edinburgh University, Paris University, Berlin University, Leipzig University, University of Pekin, and the University of Tokyo...
...From the King of Greece, he received the decoration of Knight of the Cross of the Saviour. He is now a member of many of the most learned societies of this country and Europe. The degree of LL. D., has been given him by Amherst, Cambridge, Columbia, Edinburgh, and Harvard, and that of Doctor of Civil Law by Oxford...
...Observatory is still watching closely the new star discovered by Dr. Anderson of Edinburgh on February 21. No traces of the presence of this star on February 19 were found by the photographic system in use--by which several pictures of the heavens are taken every night--and it must therefore have burst into its brilliancy within the limit of those two days. This limit no observatory could so accurately determine. Like all new stars the origin can only be explained by theories--one of which is that it is formed by a collision of heavenly bodies; another, that...
Professor James, concerning whose ill health so much has been said of late, is now travelling in Italy. His health has improved greatly since last year. He has been engaged in writing his Gifford lectures, to be delivered at Edinburgh and has already completed six of them...