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...health, he started on a walking tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned to England...
This they did, at a meeting held last week. They resolved that to the list of Trinity Colleges-Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Toronto Universities-there now be added Trinity College, Duke University. Mr. Duke, who is on the Trinity board, did not vote for the resolution, but all the rest did, including six absentees, who sent proxies...
...genuine Scotchman, Edinburgh born and bred, will play the role of MacGregor, a Scotch character, in "The Scarlet Coat", the musical comedy which is to be given by members of the Princeton Triangle Club at the Boston Opera House on Saturday evening...
...this case the canny Scot is James A. MacKintosh of Edinburgh, who is at present attending Princeton University as one of the holders of the Davison Scholarships, which correspond to the American Rhodes Scholarships...
MacKintosh, the son of a professor at Edinburgh University, served in the Royal Navy during the World War. When the war ended, however, he transferred to Oxford University, where he entered Baliol College. While at Baliol he was elected captain of the golf team and was a member of the Rugby Eleven, at the same time maintaining such a high standard in his scholastic work that he succeeded in winning the scholarship which brought him to Princeton...