Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...European universities at which he has studied appeal to him, Professor-Ambassador Schurman (onetime President of Cornell University) will have to provide for the universities of London, Paris, Edinburgh, Berlin, Gottingen...
...London Daily Chronicle, The Sunday News, The Edinburgh Evening News, The Yorkshire Evening News and the Doncaster Gazette...
...Imperial League of Opera. His new scheme calls for 120,000 subscriptions of $2.50 annually to provide for an estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner; Sir Thomas himself to be artistic director...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...
From him, their new president, the British librarians at Edinburgh last week heard a heartening definition of library work which might have been meant for Chicago ears: "One of the main features on which the success of the library service depends is freedom?freedom of the locality to develop its resources without dictation; freedom of the library in its construction and accessibility; and freedom of the individual to seek for what he desires...