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Philosopher Paul Elmer More (Shelburne Essays), famed "humanist," departed for the University of Glasgow to receive an honorary LL. D. In his cabin baggage were two large crates, full to the brim with modern detective fiction...
...accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Duchess of York...
...Cold English Brains." A British journalist of standing lately revisited India and reported his finding to North American Newspaper Alliance. Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford is a graduate of Glasgow University, where he remained for a time as assistant professor of Logic. Later he was a leading writer of the Carnegie International Commission in the Balkans (1913), and editor of the New Leader...
...same day musing, muddling Stanley Baldwin (not half so sure of his mission from On High as is Lucy) talked to a student audience at the University of Glasgow of which this year he is Lord Rector. "Whatever the cares of the day, I always enjoy my breakfast," mused he. "Every morning I am full of hope, faith and cheer. By lunch time I've lost a great deal of it and by evening I've nearly given up all hope of this world or the next...
...front cover) If a stadium were built big enough to hold all the U. S. football public at one time, it would be big enough to hold the entire population of Chicago, Paris, or of Rome, Hamburg and Glasgow put together. Its breath rising in a vast faint mist, its shout like the roar of an earthquake, its tiered ranks veiled with the smoke of innumerable cigarets, its tremendous stare as heavy as sunlight, this crowd in its fabulous coliseum has no equal in the world. Once the crowd was one-quarter its present size. It was composed of undergraduates...