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...Auckland Campbell Geddes, aged 44, is a jack-of-all-trades. He is a doctor, an authority on international trade and finance, a soldier, a statesman,a professor. He was given a medical education at Edinburgh University, at the London Hospital and at Freiburg, Germany. He became a Demonstrator and Assistant Professor of Anatomy at his old University; from there he went to the Royal College as Professor of Anatomy at Dublin and subsequently held the same position at McGill University, Montreal, later becoming Principal of that institution...
Last week this Viennese biologist arrived in America, fresh from triumphs at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, where he lectured on his work with fire salamanders and sightless newts, and convinced many of the leading British biologists of the validity of his findings. He was confined to his hotel room with a severe attack of grippe but was informally welcomed by Dr. Harry Benjamin (American disciple of Steinach) who knew him in Vienna, and a committee of eminent scientists, including Dr. David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
John Pierpont Morgan: "Some time ago Mrs. Morgan and I visited the Thistle Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Giles, Edinburgh. We were so impressed by the art of the woodcarver, Sir Robert S. Lorimer, that we asked him to do the woodwork for our little church, St. John's, near Locust Valley, L. I. This Church has seen many pretty ceremonier. While the new woodwork is being installed services are being held in a garage on the estate of William D. Guthrie...
Royal dukedoms in abeyance: Dukedoms of Edinburgh (which may be Prince Henry's title), Sussex...
Stanley Baldwin, British Premier: " The students of Edinburgh University have elected me Lord Rector in succession to Mr. George. My first cousin, Rudyard Kipling, was recently installed as Rector of St. Andrews in succession to James M. Barrie...