Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Rt. Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, Bishop of Edinburgh, 75, "kindest man in Scotland," father of Novelist Hugh Walpole and onetime (1889-96) professor of dogmatic theology at the General Theological Seminary (Manhattan); in Edinburgh...
State of Manhattan. Alan Grant Ogilvie, Reader in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, only child of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area...
...joke in England is a joy forever. Last week one Kenneth G. Frazer, F. R. C. S.,* of Edinburgh, a medical missionary to the Southern Sudan, wrote a letter to the London Times, telling people what to do with razor blades. Said he: "Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...
...member of many societies, among these the Legion of Honor of France. Other academies he belonged to were the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, American Classical Society, Royal Swedish Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1910 he was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society...
This enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council is the successor of the Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The number of delegates who will attend it is far smaller, but, while the Edinburgh Conference was almost entirely peopled by Americans and Europeans, the Jerusalem Conference includes natives from India, Siam, Ceylon, Japan and other remote districts. The U. S. delegates include famed Dr. Robert Russa Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, who will talk about Negroes...