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...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
...great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people...
Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
...Boston, will preside, with C. N. Greenough '98, former Harvard Dean, and S. E. Evans, the British Vice-Consul at Boston, as tellers. A. F. Reel '28, F. W. Lorenzen '28, and Barrett Williams '28, will speak for the University in the order named, opposed by Andrew Haddon, Edinburgh University, John Ramage, London School of Economics and Political Science, and F. O. Darvall, University of Reading...
Haddon is a Conservative, and in the campaign for the election of Sir John Gilmour to the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, he was abducted by the Liberals and held captive. Haddon has served as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and is a member of the International Committee of the Students' Representative Councils of Scotland. Haddon is also head of the travel department of that organization in Edinburgh...