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...spoils the event by broaching matters of the spirit again. "You women," he declares, "promise everything and give nothing?you promise everything; the sun, the stars and the tops of green hills." So affected is she by a vast amount of this sort of phraseology that she returns to Edinburgh as his dutiful wife, bears him a child, and dies as a consequence. Her death only serves to accentuate the happiness of the couple?to demonstrate that Carlyle was right...
...hard, slick ice of many Canadian cities the curlers use irons, but in Winnipeg, as in Edinburgh and other conservative places they use 35-lb. stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...
...Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership: 1,918,974). Said he: "Unification is right in principle and is not impractical. Is it not expedient that, we should unite...
Professor Elton, who lectured at Harvard in the spring of 1926, has been appointed lecturer in English for the year beginning next September. He received his M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. He was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1900 to 1925, and is the author of books discussing the early periods of English literature...
...number, and the group includes work by Lely, Kneller, Romney, and Raeburn. Here is the painting of Lord Newton, a Scottish judge, by Raeburn, which is believed to be the artist's original of his larger portrait of Lord Newton made for the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh. The portrait of Lord Newton and the one of Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, an English judge, by Romney, may well be considered the treasures of the Law School collection...