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Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...Robinson of Massachusetts, President Mark Hopkins of Williams, Senator George F, Hoar, George William Curtis, Alexander Agassiz, Asaph Hall, Samuel P. Langley, and J. Ingersoll Bowditch. President Eliot, of course, presided at most of the sessions. Delegated brought greetings from many American institutions and from the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Heidelberg...
...Traffic Research; Walter C. Langer, of Cambridge, Psychology; Enrique Savine, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Epidemiology; Albert E. Rauh, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Anatomy; Paul B. Cassaday, of Alliance, Ohio, Medicine; Friedrich W. Klemperer, of Freiburg, Germany, Biological Chemistry; Georges J. P. Hornus, of Paris, France, Bacteriology; James G. M. Hamilton, Edinburgh, Scotland, Medicine; Francis J. C. Herrald, of Edinburgh, Scotland, Medicine; Michel Pijoan, of Boston, Medicine; David Weinman, of New York City, Comparative Pathology; Felix Douisch, of Boston, Psychiatry; Erick Homburger, of Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, Psychology; and Georges E. P. Coppee, of Liege, Belgium, Physiology...
Among the promising twirlers who reported for practice are H. M. Curtis and two south-paws, J. T. Allen and H. N. Edinburgh. Backing up the plate in the practice games have been J. Coburn and F. S. White, while the initial bag has been held down by R. W. Galbraith, Jr., and P. F. Cunningham. Cunningham captained the Brooks School nine last year...
...burst into his country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned the distinguished Ethiopian to court, discovered with astonishment that he could speak not a word of any Ethiopian language, made him Minister of Education...