Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About half of Geddes' active life has been spent at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he founded a famous summer school of civics, built the " Outlook Tower," a laboratory in practical sociology, instituted a social survey of Edinburgh years before the first American survey, collected one of the most complete zoological gardens in the world, and laid the foundation for the city-planning movement which culminated in the London conference of 1910 and the Ghent exposition...
Educated in Edinburgh University...
...Gray, educated in Edinburgh University and in New College, Edinburgh, has had charge of churches in Manchester, Glasgow, and other large cities. At the outbreak of the war, he became a chaplain in the British Army, after which he began to speak to college students, a course which he has pursued for three years...
Dean Baillie of Windsor, chaplain to King George: "After visiting America, I found I was unable to sum up my impressions. America is too complex for that. New York and Virginia are as different as Paris and Vienna, Chicago and Boston as London and Edinburgh...
...Edinburgh Lloyd George was righteously incensed when students threw bags of flour at and he curtailed his speech...