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...little girl loves her doll. Please return my hat." He explained how he had acquired it: At Oxford last summer he saw an old man with a long white beard wearing just such a hat. He wanted one like it, hunted a long time, bought one at last in Edinburgh for 16 shillings...
...patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course of lectures on the newest physical theories at the Lowell Institute in Boston, expressed these opinions after a tour of inspection through the Harvard physical buildings...
...volumes of Scott number about 65 in all and are in excellent condition. A value of approximately 95 pounds per volume was recently given in Edinburgh, making the whole collection worth a considerable sum of money. Some of Scott's correspondence is also on view...
...season for U. S. tycoons got under way. Preceded by a brand new Puss Moth plane, 27 pieces of luggage (all stamped PW in large white letters), two sets of golf clubs (one reputedly the gift of Bobby Jones), several cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin America. Their frank effort: to drum up more trade for British manufacturers...
...Miss Emily Mary Dorman. They had been engaged for five years. Ernest, who had always loved sea ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after...