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...welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...Englishmen are coming from Hanover, N. H., where they, debated with the Dartmouth College team on Monday night on the same question which they argue with the University speakers tomorrow evening. The subject of the debate will be: Resolved, That this house opposes the growing tendency of government to invade the rights of individuals...
...Englishmen will arrive in Cambridge on Thursday morning, October 28 and will be received by the University team. It is planned to conduct them through the Yard and show them points of interest in the vicinity of Boston, Immediately after the debate, the visitors will be entertained at a reception in their honor at the Harvard Club of Boston...
Defeat of an attempted bank robbery--American style--in Liverpool has resulted in odious comparisons. One gathers that the British press believes the police system of the United States to be an object of both tears and laughter. They do these things, say the Englishmen, much better abroad. American police are well trained they admit, and they admit, well equipped; but with half the equipment the British manage to get twice the results. Somewhere, somehow, there has been a mistake...
Work on the brief for the coming debate will continue this week, and it is expected that the line-up of the Harvard speakers will be definitely decided upon by next Monday, ten days before the conflict with the Englishmen...